Majesty and Humanity: Kings and Their Doubles in the Political Drama of the Spanish Golden Age - Hardcover
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Martha Banta reaches across several disciplines to investigate America's early quest to shape an aesthetic equal to the nation's belief in its cultural worth. Marked by an unusually wide-ranging sweep, the book focuses on three major "testing grounds" where nineteenth-century Americans responded to Ralph Waldo Emerson's call to embrace "everything" in order to uncover the theoretical principles underlying "the idea of creation." The interactions of those who rose to this urgent challenge--artists, architects, writers, politicians, and the technocrats of scientific inquiry--brought about an engrossing tangle of achievements and failures. The first section of the book traces efforts to advance the status of the arts in the face of the aspersion that America lacked an Art Soul as deep as Europe's. Following that is a hard look at heated political debates over how to embellish the architecture of Washington, D.C., with the icons of cherished republican ideals. The concluding section probes novels in which artists' lives are portrayed and aesthetic principles tested.
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Alban K. Forcione is Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of the Language, Literature, and Civilization of Spain Emeritus at Princeton University, and Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Emeritus at Columbia University. He lives in Princeton, NJ.
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New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2009
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Condition: Gut. X, 286 p.: Ill. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag bestoßen, beschabt und fleckig, sonst sehr guter Zustand / dust jacket scuffed, scraped and stained, otherwise very good condition. - In the Golden Age of Spanish Theater, an age of highly dramatized coronations and regal spectacles, Alban Forcione has discovered a surprising but persistent preoccupation with the disrobing of the king. In both the celebrations of majesty and the enthrallment with its unveiling, he finds the chilling recesses in which a culture struggled to reconcile the public and the private, society and the individual, the monarch and the man. In brilliantly reinterpreting two of Lope de Vegas plays, long regarded as conventional royalist propaganda, Forcione places his texts in the context of political and institutional history, philosophy, theology, and art history. In so doing he shows how Spanish theater anticipated the decisive changes in human consciousness that characterized the ascendance of the absolutist state and its threat to the cultivation of individuality, authenticity, and humanity. / CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction. Removing the Royal Frame: Ghostly Images or Stately Illusions? 1) King and Philosopher: El villano en su rincón 2) King and Warrior: El Rey Don Pedro en Madrid o El Infanzón de Illescas Epilogue. Refractions and Disintegrations of the Majesty: The King as Statesman and Martyr Appendix 1: Synopsis of El villano en su rincón Appendix 2: Synopsis of El Rey Don Pedro en Madrid o El Infanzón de Illescas Notes Index. ISBN 9780300134407 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 563 Originalhardcover with dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 1168686