Imperial tapestries : narrative form and the question of Spanish Habsburg power, 1530-1647 / Julia L. Farmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farmer, Julia L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Habsburg, House of--In literature.

Habsburg, House of.

Politics in literature.

Power (Social sciences) in literature.

War in literature.

Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Italian literature--17th century--History and criticism.

Italian literature.

Literature.

Spanish literature--Classical period.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvi, 191 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]

Summary:

Imperial Tapestries: Narrative Form and the Question of Spanish Habsburg Power, 1530-1647 represents a transnational approach to questions of monarchical power and literary form in early modern Europe. In line with Barbara Fuchs's recent call for considerations of center versus periphery in Old World contexts, this book explores the ways in which some of the most significant authors of the early modern era questioned the structures of Spanish Habsburg authority through "imperial texts"-texts that call attention to their organizational process-in order to mirror authors' perceptions of the structures of Habsburg power. With a contextual basis in Fuchs's notion of imperium studies, ideas of self-fashioning, and theories of early modern reading, this study analyzes how complex narrative forms in the early modern period reflected the concerns with the structures of Habsburg imperial power subtly portrayed within the narratives themselves. A close reading of the strands that form the tapestries of the texts at issue reveals a deep undercurrent of misgiving toward various manifestations of Spanish Habsburg power on the part of authors who had experienced its effects first-hand. Whether the complex narrative devices in question cast the Habsburg monarchs as monster, misogynist, sorceress, aloof shepherdess, or mad would-be knight errant, they all have one thing in common: the spatialized forms that they create correspond directly with the ways in which the authors under consideration perceive the more disillusioning aspects of Habsburg hegemony. Authors studied in this volume include Ludovico Ariosto, Garcilaso de la Vega, Jorge de Montemayor, Miguel de Cervantes, and Maria de Zayas. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Dragged under his roof: Ariosto's Interlace and the imperial web of Charles V

One moment of madness: Garcilaso de la Vega and the frame of exile

The call of the labyrinth: Jorge de Montemayor and the Habsburg court

Threading the labyrinth: Don Quixote, Philip II, and the unraveling web of empire

The gravest of dangers: María de Zayas and Philip IV's shattered imperial frame

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Farmer, Julia L., author. Imperial tapestries

ISBN:

9781611487466

1611487463

OCLC:

946160837