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  6. Fernando de Rojas and the Renaissance Vision: Phantasm, Melancholy, and Didacticism in Celestina
  7. Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press
  8. Garcilaso de la Vega & the Italian Renaissance
  9. Grotesque Purgatory: A Study of Cervantes's Don Quixote, Part II
  10. Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men
  11. Medieval Spanish Epic: Mythic Roots and Ritual Language
  12. Reconstructing Woman: Gender and Scientific Thought in Nineteenth-Century French Narrative
  13. Stages of Desire: The Mythological Tradition in Classical and Contemporary Spanish Theater
  14. The Cultural Politics of Tel Qeul: Literature and the Left in the Wake of Engagement
  15. Unfinished Revolutions: Legacies of Upheaval in Modern French Culture
  16. Unfinished Revolutions: Legacies of Upheaval in Modern French Culture
  17. Vision, the Gaze, and the Function of the Senses in Celestina
  18. The New York Cruciform Lectionary

Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age (Penn State Studies in Romance Literatures)

by Anthony J Cascardi

ISBN13: 9780271016689
ISBN10: 027101668x
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"For more than a decade Cascardi has been looking at Spanish Golden Age literature (16th and 17th centuries) from a historicist perspective, and the volume under consideration here brings together ten studies, most of them previously seen in slightly different versions. Cascardi's goal is to 'historicize a category' (Golden Age) which is, he states, normally viewed in aesthetic terms. Although slightly exaggerated, the claim nonetheless points us toward a fresh— postmodern—view of the literature of 'early modern Spain' which allows us to draw new conclusions about texts we thought we knew well. The author reads Cervantes, Tirso, Calderón, Garcilaso and others from outside their texts, marking ways in which those texts are not (exclusively) aesthetic, but also social, constructs. 'Power,' 'desire,' 'authority,' 'subjectivity,' and 'marginal social' types all figure prominently in Cascardi's analyses of some of Spain's most beloved and revered authors." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)
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ISBN:
9780271016689
Author:
Cascardi, Anthony J.
Publisher:
Pennsylvania State University Press
Location:
University Park, Pa. :
Subject:
European - Spanish & Portuguese
Subject:
Literature and society
Subject:
Spanish literature
Subject:
Literature and society -- Spain.
Subject:
Littâerature et sociâetâe
Subject:
Littâerature espagnole
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series:
Penn State Studies in Romance Literatures
Series Volume:
no. 2
Publication Date:
c1997
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
viii, 327 p.
Dimensions:
9.01x6.08x1.11 in. 1.22 lbs.
Age Level:
Oedipus and Don Juan -- The archaeology of desire
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