Visions in Exile
The body in Spanish literature and linguistics, 1500-1800
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1990
XII, 211 pages
978-90-272-7816-6 (ISBN)
Description
Malcolm K. Read employs a psychoanalytic model which sees civilization as a manner of instinctual renunciation in this analysis of selected texts from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on their moments of silence and contradiction, he demonstrates that certain attitudes toward the body expressed in these texts have a basis, albeit unconscious, in a motivation which is ultimately political. The central topics, deeply intertwined thematically and theoretically, relate to the nature and development of language; to the Baroque art of Gongora and Quevedo; to Feijoo's defense of the rationalist subject set against Torres Villarroel's subversion of the same; and to the neo-classical aesthetics of Luzan and Arteaga. The result is an interdisciplinary approach that challenges traditional assumptions in both literary criticism and linguistic historiography.
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- VISIONS IN EXILE The Body in Spanish Literature and Linguistics: 1500-1800
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Preface
- 1. The Structure of Repression in Renaissance and Baroque Linguistics
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- 2. Dwarfs and Giants in a Family Romance:Luis de Góngora's Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea and Soledades
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- 3. Angel in the Mire: Francisco de Quevedo
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- 4. The Rhetoric of Innocence: Benito Jerónimo Feijoo
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- 5. The Weaver's Trade: Diego de Torres Villarroel
- I
- II
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- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- 6. The Critical Sublime: Ignacio de Luzán and Esteban de Arteaga
- I
- II
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- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- 7. The Anatomy of Grammar in Eighteenth-Century Models of Linguistic Change
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- II
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- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
