Rhetoric and politics : Baltasar Gracian and the new world order / Nicholas Spadaccini and Jenaro Talens, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spadaccini, Nicholas.

Taléns, Jenaro, 1946-

Series:

Hispanic issues ; 14.

Hispanic issues ; v. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics in literature.

Power (Social sciences) in literature.

Literature and society--Spain.

Literature and society.

Gracián y Morales, Baltasar, 1601-1658--Criticism and interpretation.

Gracián y Morales, Baltasar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (427 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wide-ranging in focus, these essays demonstrate that the work of seventeenth-century Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracián offers insights into the deployment of rhetoric under the "New World Order." "Rhetoric and Politics will do much to stimulate a renewed interest in Gracián and in the originality of Spanish culture." David William Foster, Arizona State University.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: The Practice of Worldly Wisdom: Rereading Gracián and the New World Order; Part I. The Politics of Modernity; Part II. Subjectivities; Part III. Representations; Part IV. The Politics of Everyday Life; Afterword: Constructing Gracián; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8791-9

OCLC:

476094315