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Item Number: 128552
Title: Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe
Author: Barnard, Mary E
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781442647558
Description: Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. 24cm., hardcover, 226pp. illus. Summary: Garcilaso 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. Contents: 1: Weaving, Writing, and the Art of Gift-Giving - Tapestry Culture - The Poem as Fabric: Weavers and Writers ; 2: Empire, Memory, and History - An Archive in Cloth - Unearthing Carthage ; 3: Objects of Dubious Persuasion - The Lyre and the Viol(a) - The Shell Boat - A Marble Statue ; 4: The Mirror and the Urn - At the Fountain of Narcissus - The Urn's Tale ; 5: Eros at Material Sites - Weaver Nymphs in Crystal Palaces - Daphne's Scenographic Body - Mapping the Humoral Interior - Tablet of the Soul ; 6: Staging Objects in Pastoral - Falling in Love with a Statue - Mourning Becomes Material.

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