Visions in Exile : the body in Spanish literature and linguistics, 1500-1800.
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1990.
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Colección: | Purdue University monographs in Romance languages ;
v. 30. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 de. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (224 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9789027278166 9027278164 1283358719 9781283358712 9786613358714 6613358711 |
ISSN: | 0165-8743 ; |