Transcending Textuality: Quevedo and Political Authority in the Age of Print - Brossura

García-Bryce, Ariadna

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ISBN 10: 0271037768 ISBN 13: 9780271037769

Casa editrice: Penn State University Press, 2011

Riassunto

In Transcending Textuality, Ariadna García-Bryce provides a fresh look at post-Trent political culture and Francisco de Quevedo’s place within it by examining his works in relation to two potentially rival means of transmitting authority: spectacle and print. Quevedo’s highly theatrical conceptions of power are identified with court ceremony, devotional ritual, monarchical and spiritual imagery, and religious and classical oratory. At the same time, his investment in physical and emotional display is shown to be fraught with concern about the decline of body-centered modes of propagating authority in the increasingly impersonalized world of print.Transcending Textuality shows that Quevedo’s poetics are, in great measure, defined by the attempt to retain in writing the qualities of live physical display.

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L'autore

Ariadna García-Bryce is Professor of Spanish and Humanities at Reed College.

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Book by GarcaBryce Ariadna

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penn State University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0271037768
• ISBN 13: 9780271037769
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 174