Baroque Spain and the Writing of Visual and Material Culture

ISBN-13: 9781783167838 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 304 str.

Alicia R. Zuese

Opis

Visual language plays a key role in baroque Spanish literature. By examining the pictorial episodes in Spanish baroque novellas, Alicia R. Zuese elucidates how writers create pictorial texts and how audiences visualize their words. The writers examined include prominent representatives of Spanish prose Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Maria de Zayas, and Luis Velez de Guevara as well as lesser-known authors including Alonso de Castillo Solorzano, Gonzalo de Cespedes y Meneses, and an anonymous group in Cordoba. Applying methods from cognitive cultural studies, classical memory treatises, and techniques of spiritual visualization, Zuese breaks new ground by investigating how artistic genres and material culture help us grasp an audience s aural, material, visual, and textual literacies."