The Spanish Arcadia
Title | The Spanish Arcadia PDF eBook |
Author | Javier Irigoyen-García |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2014-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1442647272 |
The Spanish Arcadia analyzes the figure of the shepherd in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish imaginary, exploring its centrality to the discourses on racial, cultural, and religious identity. Drawing on a wide range of documents, including theological polemics on blood purity, political treatises, manuals on animal husbandry, historiography, paintings, epic poems, and Spanish ballads, Javier Irigoyen-García argues that the figure of the shepherd takes on extraordinary importance in the reshaping of early modern Spanish identity. The Spanish Arcadia contextualizes pastoral romances within a broader framework and assesses how they inform other cultural manifestations. In doing so, Irigoyen-García provides incisive new ideas about the social and ethnocentric uses of the genre, as well as its interrelation with ideas of race, animal husbandry, and nation building in early modern Spain.
The Spanish Arcadia
Title | The Spanish Arcadia PDF eBook |
Author | Javier Irigoyen-García |
Publisher | |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Ethnology |
ISBN | 9781442667662 |
Annotation The Spanish Arcadia analyzes the figure of the shepherd in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish imaginary, exploring its centrality to the discourses on racial, cultural, and religious identity. Drawing on a wide range of documents, including theological polemics on blood purity, political treatises, manuals on animal husbandry, historiography, paintings, epic poems, and Spanish ballads, Javier Irigoyen-Garca argues that the figure of the shepherd takes on extraordinary importance in the reshaping of early modern Spanish identity. The Spanish Arcadia contextualizes pastoral romances within a broader framework and assesses how they inform other cultural manifestations. In doing so, Irigoyen-Garca provides incisive new ideas about the social and ethnocentric uses of the genre, as well as its interrelation with ideas of race, animal husbandry, and nation building in early modern Spain.
Spanish Arcadia
Title | Spanish Arcadia PDF eBook |
Author | Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez |
Publisher | |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
A Dream of Arcadia
Title | A Dream of Arcadia PDF eBook |
Author | Lily Litvak |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1985 |
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A Dream of Arcadia
Title | A Dream of Arcadia PDF eBook |
Author | Lily Litvak |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2014-08-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1477301224 |
The dream of “progress” that animated many nineteenth-century artistic and political movements gave way at the turn of the century to a dissatisfaction with the Industrial Civilization and a recurrent pessimism about a future dominated by mechanization. Art Nouveau, which was both a style and a movement, embodied this dissatisfaction, marking the turn-of-the-century period with an aesthetic that consciously set out to revolutionize literature, the arts, and society within the framework of a brutalizing, wildly burgeoning Industrial Civilization. Generally associated with northern European culture, Art Nouveau also had a great impact in the south, particularly in Spain. A Dream of Arcadia is the first work to explore Spain’s fertile and imaginative Art Nouveau. Through the eyes of four major Spanish writers, Lily Litvak views several different aspects of the turn-of-the-century struggle against the advances of industrialism in Spain. Her interpretation of the early works of Ramón del Valle Inclán, Miguel de Unamuno, José Martínez Ruiz (Azorín), and Pío Baroja exposes a longing for a preindustrial arcadia based on a return to nature, the revival of handicrafts and medieval art, an attraction to rural primitive societies, and a revulsion against the modern city. Set against the European literary and artistic background of the period, her observations place the Spanish manifestations of Art Nouveau within the context of the better-known northern phenomena. Of particular interest is her discussion of the influences of John Ruskin, William Morris, and the Pre-Raphaelites, which demonstrates how the general European mood was articulated in Spain. Litvak concludes that Valle Inclán, Unamuno, Azorín, and Baroja must be considered as more than simply fin de siècle writers, for they became part of a general movement, generated by Art Nouveau, that spans an entire century. A Dream of Arcadia demonstrates that Art Nouveau was more than a flash on Europe's artistic horizon; it is a philosophy with ramifications that have led to communes, handcrafted articles, and nomadic adolescents in search of truth.
California: Spanish Arcadia
Title | California: Spanish Arcadia PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1929 |
Genre | California |
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California: Spanish Arcadia, by N.V. Sanchez
Title | California: Spanish Arcadia, by N.V. Sanchez PDF eBook |
Author | John Russell McCarthy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 442 |
Release | 1929 |
Genre | California |
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