Cultural Authority in Golden Age Spain (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) - Hardcover

"Of consistently high quality and is probably the best sampling of the exciting but dizzing intellectual ferment at work in studies of Spain's Renaissance and Baroque Literature." -- David J. Hildner, Comparitve Literature and General Literature

"A generous grab bag of articles on authorship and authority, style and tradition, Golden Age Spain and America of that period, 'texual discontinuities', and 'the role of discontinuity in the formation of national culture', 'secularization and literary self-assertion in Don Quixote' etc. It is a must for up-to-date Hispanics." -- Chronique

"Over the past several years, a series of extraordinary cutting edge developments have taken place in Golden Age Spanish studies. Important new issues have been addressed--and conceived--in innovative ways: questions of gender and sexuality; concepts of self and other; political and social contexts of literary production and reception. While these investigations have already begun to have a significant impact on our current reconceptualization of culture in general and Spanish culture in particular, they have until now been somewhat overly dispersed, even fragmented--in large part because of their very nature as rethinkings, as experimental. The present volume constitutes a collective examination of these kinds of key cultural issues within the historically specific context of Golden Age Spain, configured around the central question of authority."--Marina S. Brownlee, from the Preface.

In a wide-ranging series of essays, the contributors to this volume bring recent critical and theoretical perspectives to bear on our understanding of culture in Golden Age Spain, focusing on the related notions of authority, authorship, selfhood, and tradition in Spanish culture. This book will appeal to Hispanists and comparatists interested in contemporary perspectives on the literature and culture of medieval and Renaissance Spain as well as to medievalists and Renaissance specialists interested in Spanish literature.

Contributors: Lía Schwartz Lerner, Josè Regueiro, Edward H. Friedman, Mary Malcolm Gaylord, Marina S. Brownlee, Paul Julian Smith, Harry Sieber, Robert ter Horst, Ruth El Saffar, Anthony J. Cascardi, Diana de Armas Wilson, Walter Cohen, Joan Ramón Resina, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.