1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457631303321

Autore

Mayers Kathryn M. <1966->

Titolo

Visions of empire in colonial Spanish American ekphrastic writing [[electronic resource] /] / Kathryn M. Mayers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Bucknell University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-32065-7

9786613320650

1-61148-393-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Collana

The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory

Disciplina

860.9/98

Soggetti

Spanish American literature - To 1800 - History and criticism

Ekphrasis

Imperialism in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Note on Translations; Chapter 01. Picturing Power; Chapter 02. Imag(in)ing Empire: Ekphrasis and Luis de Góngora; Chapter 03. Pictures of Plenty: Cornucopiae in Hernando Domínguez Camargo's Poema heroico a San Ignacio de Loyola; Chapter 04. Icons of Identities: Classical and Biblical Emblems in Juan de Espinosa Medrano's Apologético; Chapter 05. Portraits of Privilege: Petrarchan Blasones of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

The process of shaping cultural identity in viceregal Spanish America has occurred as much through the medium of pictures as through the medium of writing. Focused on writing that references visual texts (ekphrasis), Visions of Empire in Colonial Spanish American Ekphrastic Writing examined the way words about pictures in the writing of three Spanish American Creoles negotiate the challenges that confronted the ruling elite in Spanish America during the contentious period between the Conquest and Independence.</spa



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791263403321

Autore

Masud Muhammad

Titolo

Islam and modernity [[electronic resource] ] : key issues and debates / / edited by Muhammad Khalid Masud, Armando Salvatore, and Martin van Bruinessen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-78402-521-6

1-282-62035-5

9786612620355

0-7486-3794-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MasudMuhammad Khalid <1939->

SalvatoreArmando

BruinessenMartin van

Disciplina

297

Soggetti

Islamic modernism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Part 1 Conceptualising Modernity; 1. Tradition and Modernity within Islamic Civilisation and the West, Armando Salvatore; 2. Western Scholars of Islam on the Issue of Modernity, Muhammad Khalid Masud and Armando Salvatore; Part 2 Negotiating Modernity; 3. Political Modernity in the Middle East, Sami Zubaida; 4. Islam, Modernity and the Politics of Gender: Perspectives from the Middle East, Central Asia and Afghanistan, Deniz Kandiyoti; 5. Sufism, 'Popular' Islam and the Encounter with Modernity, Martin van Bruinessen; 6. Colonialism and Islamic Law, Ebrahim Moosa; Part 3 Debating Modernity; 7. The Reform Project in the Emerging Public Spheres, Armando Salvatore; 8. The Ulama and Contestations of Religious Authority under Modern Conditions, Muhammad Qasim Zaman; 9. Islamic Modernism, Muhammad Khalid Masud; 10. The Shifting Politics of Identity, Abdulkader Tayob; List of Contributors.

Sommario/riassunto

Recent events have focused attention on the perceived differences and tensions between the Muslim world and the modern West. As a major strand of Western public discourse has it, Islam appears resistant to



internal development and remains inherently pre-modern. However Muslim societies have experienced most of the same structural changes that have impacted upon all societies: massive urbanisation, mass education, dramatically increased communication, the emergence of new types of institutions and associations, some measure of political mobilisation, and major transformations of the economy. Th