Transcending Textuality - Quevedo and Political Authority in the Age of Print

In Transcending Textuality, Ariadna Garca-Bryce provides a fresh look at post-Trent political culture and Francisco de Quevedos place within it by examining his works in relation to two potentially rival means of transmitting authority: spectacle and print. Quevedos highly theatrical conceptions of power are identified with court ceremony, devotional ritual, monarchical and spiritual imagery, and religious and classical oratory. At the same time, his investment in physical and emotional display is shown to be fraught with concern about the decline of body-centered modes of propagating authority in the increasingly impersonalized world of print. Transcending Textuality shows that Quevedos poetics are, in great measure, defined by the attempt to retain in writing the qualities of live physical display.

About the author

Ariadna García-Bryce is Professor of Spanish and Humanities at Reed College.

Product details

• Authors: Ariadna Garc A-Bryce, Ariadna Garcia-Bryce, Ariadna (Associate Professor of Spanish and Humanities Garcia-Bryce, Ariadna García-Bryce
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2011
• EAN: 9780271037752
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03775-2
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Penn State Romance Studies; Penn State Romance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Spain, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, Political science & theory, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Spanish Civil War, HISTORY / Europe / Spain