Baroque Spain and the Writing of Visual and Material Culture (University of Wales Press - Studies in Visual Culture)

Visual language plays a key role in baroque Spanish literature. By examining the pictorial episodes in Spanish baroque novellas, Alicia R. Zuese elucidates how writers create pictorial texts and how audiences visualize their words. The writers examined include prominent representatives of Spanish prose—Cervantes, Lope de Vega, María de Zayas, and Luis Vélez de Guevara—as well as lesser-known authors including Alonso de Castillo Solórzano, Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, and an anonymous group in Córdoba. Applying methods from cognitive cultural studies, classical memory treatises, and techniques of spiritual visualization, Zuese breaks new ground by investigating how artistic genres and material culture help us grasp an audience’s aural, material, visual, and textual literacies. Front Cover BAROQUE SPAIN Contents Series editors’ preface Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: Viewing the Tale: Cervantes’s Portrait, Lope’s Hieroglyphics and Methods of Verbal-Visual Cognition Approaches to cognition in baroque novellas The collection as a site of inquiry into baroque poetics Emblems and mnemotechnics: theories of the verbal-visual in baroque Spain Emblems, mnemotechnics, and Jesuit theory of visualization The jail cell as material memory palace in Lope’s El peregrino en su patria (The Pilgrim in his Own Land) Structure of this study 1 Image, Text and Memory in IlluminatedManuscripts and Early Print Memory, image and text in the Middle Ages Libro del Caballero Zifar: didacticism and the frame Echoes between the visual and verbal arts: frames and narrative pictures in medieval retablos El Conde Lucanor: imagined illuminations Exemplario contra los engaños: image and text in the first century of print Stories in the interstices of genre: El Patrañuelo, El Fabulario and miscellanies 2 Don Quijote and Don Juan: Collectors and the Collection as Models for Critical Inquiry into the Baroque The collection as a site of critical inquiry into baroque Spain Politics, faith, and the collection Royal collections and social trends The theological concept of the Holy Trinity: unity in multiplicity Cultural artefacts and the collection Galleries and frames in art and the mind Collecting and cognition in the novella frame Cognitive and material effects of the collection: Don Quijote and Don Juan The physical collection: the library, the Index and the print shop The immaterial collection in the Quijote Don Juan: collection and colonialism of bodies and minds Don Juan and the repetitive collection 3 Material Representations of the World:Using Physical Texts and FictionalExpression to Create Literary Edifices Novella and still-life painting Novella and printed media Novella and baroque retablo Intangible and material markers of communicative practices in Cervantes’s Rinconete y Cortadillo Genres within genres and alternative inscriptions Manuscripts and textual exchanges within and beyond the literary world 4 Emblems, Meditation and Memory:Mental Reverberations of the Novella I. Pictorial discourse in Zayas’s novellas Models of woman-centred imagination in Zayas’s Aventurarse perdiendo (Taking a Chance on Losing) Cognitively and materially bound imagery in Zayas’s collections The convent and collective memory in Zayas’s Novelas and Desengaños amorosos Public intimacy: Lope de Vega’s Novelas a Marcia Leonarda Memory and materiality in Cervantes’s El casamiento engañoso and El coloquio de los perros Memorial urban mouthpieces and collective storytelling in Los casos notables de la ciudad de Córdoba 5 Fragmentation of the Protagonist andSociety: Emblems, Anamorphosisand Corporeality El Licenciado Vidriera: images and emblems for the fragmented self and society Vidriera as emblem writ large El diablo cojuelo: anamorphosis and fragmentation in the verbal-visual representation of Spain Vision, anamorphosis and diabolical insight Scrutinized subjects in seventeenth-century Spain Conclusion: Embodied Cognition and Spain’s Duende Notes Introduction Image, Text and Memory Don Quiote and Don Juan Material Representations of the World Emblems, Meditation and Memory Fragmentation of the Protagonist and Society Conclusion Bibliography INDEX Back Cover By examining the pictorial episodes in the Spanish baroque novella, this book elucidates how writers create pictorial texts, how audiences visualise their words, what consequences they exert on cognition and what actions this process inspires. To interrogate characters'mental activity, internalisation of text and the effects on memory, this book applies methodologies from cognitive cultural studies, Classical memory treatises and techniques of spiritual visualisation. It breaks new ground by investigating how artistic genres and material culture help us grasp the audience's aural, material, visual and textual literacies, which equipped the public with cognitive mechanisms to face restrictions in post-Counter-Reformation Spain. The writers examined include prominent representatives of Spanish prose —Cervantes, Lope de Vega, María de Zayas and Luis Vélez de Guevara— as well as Alonso de Castillo Solórzano, Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses and an anonymous group in Córdoba. Through an examination of the pictorial episodes in the Spanish baroque novella, this book investigates how writers create pictorial texts, how audiences visualise their words, what consequences they exert on cognition and what actions this process inspires in the audiences.