Ambiguous Antidotes : Virtue as Vaccine for Vice in Early Modern Spain / Hilaire Kallendorf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kallendorf, Hilaire, author.

Series:

Toronto Iberic ; 30.

Toronto Iberic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Spanish drama.

Virtues in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 pages).

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Chastity and lust, charity and greed, humility and pride, are but some of the virtues and vices that have been in tension since Prudentius' Psychomachia, written in the fifth century. While there has been widespread agreement within a given culture about what exactly constitutes a virtue or a vice, are these categories so consistent after all? In Ambiguous Antidotes, Hilaire Kallendorf explores the receptions of Virtues in the realm of moral philosophy and the artistic production it influenced during the Spanish Golden Age. Using the Derridian notion of pharmakon, a powerful substance that can serve as poison and cure, Kallendorf's original and pioneering insight into five key Virtues (justice, fortitude, chastity, charity, and prudence) reveals an intriguing but messy relationship. Rather than being seen as unambiguously good antidotes, the Virtues are instead contested spaces where competing sets of values jostled for primacy and hegemony. Employing an arsenal of tools drawn from literary theory and cultural studies, Ambiguous Antidotes confirms that you can in fact have too much of a good thing.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Prologue: Virtuous Genealogies

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Blind Justice

2. Fleeting Fortitude

3. Charity as Greed

4. Loose Chastity

5. Prudence: Panacea or Placebo?

6. Class Trumps Sex: The (En)gendering of Virtue

Conclusion

Epilogue: Virtual Virtue

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Comedias

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9781487514655

1487514654

9781487514648

1487514646

OCLC:

1076409811