Contradictory Subjects: Quevedo, Cervantes, and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Culture

Contradictory Subjects: Quevedo, Cervantes, and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Culture

by George Mariscal
Contradictory Subjects: Quevedo, Cervantes, and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Culture

Contradictory Subjects: Quevedo, Cervantes, and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Culture

by George Mariscal

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Overview

This ambitious book attempts to rehistoricize the Golden Age of Spain (ca. 1550-1680) by placing literary production in its socio-cultural context. Drawing on theories of cultural materialism and making use of historical analysis, George Mariscal focuses on the ways in which the problem of subjectivity is constructed in the writing of the period, particularly the poetry of Francisco de Quevedo and Cervantes' Don Quixote.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780801426049
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 09/10/1991
Series: Living Standards Measurement Study
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.94(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

George Mariscal is Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

What People are Saying About This

Edward H. Friedman

Mariscal's examination of the 'subject' in Quevedo and Cervantes offers many insights into the texts in question and into the critical act itself. This important book will be the source of animated discussion and will lead to further studies of ideas and ideologies.

Walter Cohen

Mariscal's book brings a new perspective to Golden Age Spanish studies. Although it does not destroy the traditional opposition between Quevedo and Cervantes, it significantly and usefully complicates it. Contradictory Subjects is distinguished by its mastery of the relevant theoretical issues, a wide range of secondary sources, and a considerable number of primary 'nonliterary' texts of early modern Spain.

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