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The extent to which contemporary rhetorics of nation and kingship
reflected the realities of social, economic and cultural life in
Habsburg Spain. Early modern Spain's insistent rhetorics of nation
and kingship, of a monolithic body of shared values and beliefs,
especially in respect of racial and gender stereotypes, and of a
centralized and ostensibly absolutist legislativeapparatus did not
map unproblematically onto the complex topography of everyday life.
This volume explores the extent to which these rhetorics and the
ideology they helped to construct or underpin reflected or failed
to reflect the realities of social, economic, and cultural life. It
sets against their typically exorbitant claims the lived, messy,
and sometimes contradictory experience of Spaniards across a broad
social spectrum, both at the centre and atthe margins, not just of
peninsular society, but of the Hispanic world overseas. Confronting
ideology were questions of economic pragmatism, executive
feasibility, jurisdictional competence, and, above all, the social
and political complexity of the Spain of the period. RICHARD J. PYM
is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Royal Holloway,
University of London. Contributors: TREVOR J. DADSON, MARGARET RICH
GREER, BARRY IFE, ALISTAIR MALCOLM, MELVEENA MCKENDRICK, RICHARD J.
PYM, HELEN RAWLINGS, ALEXANDER SAMSON, JULES WHICKER
The treatment of mythological material in the poetry, prose, drama,
art and music of the Hispanic Baroque. Thirteen essays engage with
one of the most obsessive aspects of the Baroque aesthetic, a
dedicated commitment in distinct artistic contexts to the treatment
of mythological material. Within the various 'Baroques' uncovered,
thereis a single unity of purpose. Meaning is always negotiable,
but the process of interpretation is dependent upon intertextual
forms of understanding, and presupposes the active participation of
the receiver. The volume explores how the paradigmatic mythical
symbols of a Renaissance epistemological world view can be
considered a barometer of rupture and a gauge of the contradictory
impulses of the time. Essays explore the differing functions of
mythology in poetry [Quevedo, Espinosa, Gongora], prose
[Cervantes], drama [Lope de Vega, Sor Juana, Calderon], art
[Velazquez], and music [Latin American opera]. Collectively they
trace the dialectic of continuity and rupture that underpins the
appropriation of classical mythology in the period; demonstrating
that the mythological legacy was not as uniform, as allegorically
dominated, nor as depleted of potential as we are sometimes led to
believe. ISABEL TORRES is Head of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at
Queen's University, Belfast. Contributors: JEAN ANDREWS , STEPHEN
BOYD, D. W. CRUICKSHANK, TREVOR. J. DADSON, B.W. IFE, ANTHONY
LAPPIN, OLIVER NOBLE WOOD, JEREMY ROBBINS, BRUCE SWANSEY, BARRY
TAYLOR, ISABEL TORRES, D. GARETH WALTERS
This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays
written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading
Cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's
Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic
readership. This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned
essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading
cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's
Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic
readership. An extensive general Introduction places the Novelas in
the context of Cervantes's life and work; provides basic
information about their content, composition, internal ordering,
publication, and critical reception, gives detailed consideration
to the contemporary literary-theoretical issues implicit in the
title, and outlines and contributes to the key critical debates on
their variety, unity, exemplarity,and supposed "hidden mystery".
After a series of chapters on the individual stories, the volume
concludes with two survey essays devoted, respectively, to the
understanding of eutrapelia implicit in the Novelas, andto the
dynamics of the character pairing that is one of their salient
features. Detailed plot summaries of each of the stories, and a
Guide to Further Reading are supplied as appendices. Stephen Boyd
is a lecturer in the Department of Hispanic Studies of University
College Cork.
This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays
written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading
Cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's
Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic
readership. This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned
essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading
cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's
Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic
readership. An extensive general Introduction places the Novelas in
the context of Cervantes's life and work; provides basic
information about their content, composition, internal ordering,
publication, and critical reception, gives detailed consideration
to the contemporary literary-theoretical issues implicit in the
title, and outlines and contributes to the key critical debates on
their variety, unity, exemplarity,and supposed 'hidden mystery'.
After a series of chapters on the individual stories, the volume
concludes with two survey essays devoted, respectively, to the
understanding of eutrapelia implicit in the Novelas, andto the
dynamics of the character pairing that is one of their salient
features. Detailed plot summaries of each of the stories, and a
Guide to Further Reading are supplied as appendices. Stephen Boyd
is a lecturer in the Department of Hispanic Studies of University
College Cork.
In the Spanish Golden Age, the new literary mode of vernacular
prose fiction was deplored by many authorities for setting bad
examples, undermining reality by deceiving with lies, and
persuading in the face of rational disbelief. Dr Ife here examines
the connection between the objections posed to this fiction and
those raised two thousand years earlier by Plato. This book shows
how the aims and results of 'picaresque' novel writing in fact
counter such objections. In a study of three sixteenth- and early
seventeenth-century Spanish novels Dr Ife demonstrates that the
authors consciously exploited their readers' response to a
narrative in order to bring them to a clearer understanding of
their own experience. In this way the very process of
representation deplored by the Platonist critics may be regarded as
having a moral validity of its own. Additional English translations
are provided of all the key extracts studied.
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