Cultural Capital, Language and National Identity in Imperial Spain

A study of the cultural mechanisms in early modern Spain that led to the translation, imitation and selective adoption of the values embodied by the Italian Renaissance.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Italian Appropriation of Sentimental Fiction
Shaping Cultural Capital away from Home: Literature and Canon Formation from Ariosto to Cervantes
Visual Eroticism, Poetic Voyeurism: Ekphrasis and the Complexities of Patronage in Góngora's Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea
Creating Identity: Ambrosio de Morales and the Re-writing of Spanish History
Historicizing Language, Imagining People: Aldrete and Linguistic Politics
Conclusion
Works Cited

About the author

Lucia Binotti

Summary

A study of the cultural mechanisms in early modern Spain that led to the translation, imitation and selective adoption of the values embodied by the Italian Renaissance.

Product details

• Authors: Lucia Binotti, Lucia (Customer) Binotti
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2012
• EAN: 9781855662452
• ISBN: 978-1-85566-245-2
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 485 g
• Series: Monografias A; Monografías a
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Amerika, Europäische Geschichte, Südeuropa, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, Literature - Classics / Criticism, HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American