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Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age

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ISBN-10: 027101668X

ISBN-13: 9780271016689

Edition: 1997

Authors: Anthony J. Cascardi

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Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was in the throes of modernization arising from trade with the New World and the rise of an urban society. During this period, Spanish culture came to be dominated by the tension between an old regime of traditional values--honor, lineage, purity of blood--and these modernizing influences.Anthony J. Cascardi examines the literature of the Golden Age as the point at which tensions between the old and the new converged and proposes that this historical drama provided the context for subject-formation in early modern Spain. He examines how Spanish writers envisioned history and studies how these visions revealed or concealed contradictions…    
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Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 10/20/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 1.254

Anthony J. Cascardi is the director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities and a professor of Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Historicizing the Golden Age
The Spanish Comedia and the Resistance to Historical Change
Transformations of the Cid
Allegories of Power in Calderon
The Subject of Control in Counter-Reformation Spain
Gracian and the Authority of Taste
Desire and Authority in the Spanish Golden Age: Oedipus and Don Juan
The Archaeology of Desire in Don Quijote
Secularization and Literary Self-Assertion in Don Quijote
Instinct and Object: Subjectivity and Speech-Act in Garcilaso de la Vega
Reason and Romance
Index