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OverviewGarcilaso 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. As a pioneer of the ""new poetry"" of Renaissance Europe, aligned with the court, empire, and modernity, Garcilaso was fully attuned to the collection and circulation of luxury artefacts and other worldly goods. In his poems, a variety of objects, including tapestries, paintings, statues, urns, mirrors, and relics participate in lyric acts of discovery and self-revelation, reveal memory as contingent and unstable, expose knowledge of the self as deceptive, and show how history intersects with the ideology of empire. Mary E. Barnard's study argues persuasively that the material culture of early sixteenth-century Europe embedded within Garcilaso's poems offers a key to understanding the interplay between objects and texts that make those works such vibrant inventions. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mary BarnardPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.520kg ISBN: 9781442647558ISBN 10: 1442647558 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 14 November 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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 IndexReviews'A vibrant, truly scholarly study that deserves pride of place in any collection (library or personal)... Essential.' -- K.M Sibbald Choice Magazine vol 52:12:2015 ‘A vibrant, truly scholarly study that deserves pride of place in any collection (library or personal)… Essential.’ -- K.M Sibbald * Choice Magazine vol 52:12:2015 * ‘Barnard’s studies of Garcilaso’s Naples period are excellent approaches to his politics and his representations of emotional states…. Barnard’s book is worthy of careful attention of anyone interested in Renaissance verse.’ -- Eric Clifford Graf * Renaissance Quarterly vol 69:01:2016 * ‘Barnard’s book will prove to be of great interest and benefit to students of early modern poetry by offering a timely exploration of how objects allow a poetic speaker to constitute himself as a subject.’ -- Felipe Valencia * Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literature vol 71:02:2017 * ‘This book is an articulate and well-informed view of the poems that defined Garcilaso… Barnard’s sophisticated interpretations make an important contribution to our understanding of an author not coincidentally dubbed ‘principe de los peotas españoles.’ -- Antonio J. Arraiza Rivera * Bulletin of Spanish Studies vol 94:2017 * Author InformationMary E. Barnard is an associate professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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