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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Read, Malcolm K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990.
Colección:Purdue University monographs in Romance languages ; v. 30.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (224 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9789027278166
9027278164
1283358719
9781283358712
9786613358714
6613358711
ISSN:0165-8743 ;