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Imperial Tapestries - Narrative Form and the Question of Spanish Habsburg Power, 1530-1647 (Hardcover)
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Imperial Tapestries - Narrative Form and the Question of Spanish Habsburg Power, 1530-1647 (Hardcover)
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Imperial Tapestries represents a transnational approach to
questions of monarchical power and literary form in early modern
Europe. In line with Barbara Fuchs's recent call for considerations
of center versus periphery in Old World contexts, it explores the
ways in which some of the most significant authors of the early
modern era questioned the structures of Spanish Habsburg authority
through "imperial texts"-texts that call attention to their
organizational process-in order to mirror authors' perceptions of
the structures of Habsburg power. With a contextual basis in Fuchs'
notion of imperium studies, ideas of self-fashioning, and theories
of early modern reading, the study explores the ways in which
complex narrative forms in the early modern period reflected the
concerns with the structures of Habsburg imperial power subtly
portrayed within the narratives themselves. A close reading of the
various strands that form the tapestries of the texts at issue
reveals a deep undercurrent of misgivings toward various
manifestations of Spanish Habsburg power on the part of authors who
had experienced its effects first-hand. Whether the complex
narrative devices in question cast the Habsburg monarchs as
monster, misogynist, sorceress, aloof shepherdess, or mad would-be
knight errant, they all have one thing in common: the spatialized
forms that they create correspond directly with the ways in which
the authors in question perceive the more disillusioning aspects of
Habsburg hegemony. Authors studied in the volume include Ludovico
Ariosto, Garcilaso de la Vega, Jorge de Montemayor, Miguel de
Cervantes, and Maria de Zayas.
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