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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814301303321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997

ISBN

0-8166-8791-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (427 p.)

Collana

Hispanic issues ; ; v. 14

Altri autori (Persone)

SpadacciniNicholas

TalensJenaro <1946->

Disciplina

868/.309

Soggetti

Politics in literature

Power (Social sciences) in literature

Literature and society - Spain

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; 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.