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Transcending Textuality:

Quevedo and Political Authority in the Age of Print
  • ISBN-13: 9780271037752
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Ariadna Garcia-Bryce
  • Price: AUD $148.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/08/2011
  • Format: Hardback 176 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Military history [HBW]
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Examines the political writings of the seventeenth-century Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo within the context of the social and material practices of spectacle culture.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Crafting Royal Omnipotence

2. The Power of the Passion

3. The Agnostic Word

4. Vacuous Print

Epilogue

Works Cited

Index


“García-Bryce brilliantly contextualizes within a multidiscursive sphere Quevedo’s conception of the arbitrariness of contemporary semiotic systems.”

—Carmen Peraita, Renaissance Quarterly

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