Enrique Fernandez

The Image of Celestina

Illustrations, Paintings, and Advertisements

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines imagery of the eponymous character from La Celestina from the early sixteenth century until today.

Produktdetails

• Toronto Iberic
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781487549787
• ISBN-10: 1487549784
• Artikelnr.: 67617248

Autorenporträt

Enrique Fernández is a professor of Spanish at the University of Manitoba.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Summary of La Celestina (c. 1499)
Introduction: The Visual Culture of Celestina
Five hundred years of images of Celestina
The methodological frame of visual studies
Organization of the book
1. Illustrating Celestina
The first period of illustrated editions of LC (1499 to 1616)
Fadrique de Basilea's Comedia de Calisto y Melibea (Burgos, 1499?)
The iconographic program of the early illustrations
LC title pages
The second period of illustrated editions of LC (1842-present)
Conclusions: Two periods, two readings
2. Painting Celestina
Images of procuresses before LC
Dutch painting: Celestina and the Prodigal Son
From Goya to Picasso and beyond
Conclusion: Reimagining Celestina
3. Advertising Celestina
Promotional images of Celestina: Book covers, playbills, and posters
LC covers
Posters, playbills, and lobby cards
Conclusion: Celestina through the prism of advertising
Conclusion: Kaleidoscopic Celestina
Illustrations
Notes
Bibliography
Secondary sources cited
Old edition of LC cited
Modern edition of LC cited
Images cited
Index