Mary E Barnard

Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe examines the role of cultural objects in the lyric poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega, the premier poet of sixteenth-century Spain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781442647558
• ISBN-10: 1442647558
• Artikelnr.: 40115987

Autorenporträt

Mary E. Barnard is an associate professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Note on Editions and Translations
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Engaging the Material
Chapter 1: Weaving, Writing, and the Art of Gift-Giving 
Tapestry Culture
The Poem as Fabric: Weavers and Writers
Chapter 2:  Empire, Memory, and History 
An Archive in Cloth
Unearthing Carthage
Chapter 3: Objects of Dubious Persuasion
The Lyre and the Viol(a)
The Shell Boat
A Marble Statue
Chapter 4: The Mirror and the Urn
At the Fountain of Narcissus
The Urn’s Tale
Chapter 5: Eros at Material Sites
Weaver Nymphs in Crystal Palaces
Daphne’s Scenographic Body
Mapping the Humoral Interior
Tablet of the Soul
Chapter 6: Staging Objects in Pastoral
Falling in Love with a Statue
Mourning Becomes Material
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index