University Press Copublishing Division / Bucknell University Press
Pages: 182
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-1-61148-392-5 • Hardback • November 2011 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
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Kathryn Mayers is associate professor of Colonial Latin American Literature at Wake Forest University.
Introduction
1. Picturing Power
Ekphrasis
The Cultural Turn in Visual Theory
Sister Arts, Semiotic, and Sociological Approaches to Ekphrasis
(The) Golden Age (of) Ekphrasis
Determinate Contradictions, Colonialism and the Creole
Power and Ekphrasis
2. Imag(in)ing Empire: Ekphrasis and Luis de Góngora
Cornucopiae and Economic Discord
Icons and Philosophical Fracture
Blasones and Cultural Crisis
Conclusion
3. Pictures of Plenty: Cornucopiae in Hernando Domínguez Camargo’s Poema heroico a San Ignacio de Loyola
Ekphrastic Recalibration and Resemanticization
Ekphrastic Simultaneity and Intensification
Conclusion
4. Icons of Identities: Classical and Biblical Emblems in Juan de Espinosa Medrano’s Apologético
Fractalization
Refocalization
Conclusion
5. Portraits of Privilege: Petrarchan Blasones of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
De-visualization and Metapictorialization of Petrarchan Tropes
Corporealization and Socialization of Renaissance Perspective
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography