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The refracted muse : literature and optics in early modern Spain / Enrique García Santo-Tomás ; translated by Vincent Barletta.
Author
García Santo-Tomás, Enrique
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Uniform title
Musa refractada.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
©2017
Description
xvi, 308 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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PQ6142 .G3713 2017
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Subject(s)
Spanish fiction
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Classical period, 1500-1700
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History and criticism
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Literature and science
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Spain
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History
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17th century
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Science
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Spain
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History
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17th century
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Optics in literature
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Translator
Barletta, Vincent
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Summary note
Galileo never set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, yet, as Enrique García Santo-Tomás unfolds in The Refracted Muse, the news of his work with telescopes brought him to surprising prominence{u2014}not just among Spaniards working in the developing science of optometry but among creative writers as well. While Spain is often thought to have taken little notice of the Scientific Revolution, García Santo-Tomás tells a different story, one that reveals Golden Age Spanish literature to be in close dialogue with the New Science. Drawing on the work of writers such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, and Quevedo, he helps us trace the influence of science and discovery on the rapidly developing and highly playful genre of the novel. Indeed, García Santo-Tomás makes a strong case that the rise of the novel cannot be fully understood without taking into account its relationship to the scientific discoveries of the period. -- From publisher's website.
Notes
Translated from the Spanish.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-283) and index.
Language note
Translated from the Spanish.
Contents
Writing on the firmament. Observations
Galileo and his Spanish contemporaries. Foundations ; Assimilations ; Inscriptions
The science of satire ; Situations ; Explorations
The refracted muse. Interventions ; Reverberations.
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ISBN
9780226376462 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
022637646X ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
9780226465739 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
022646573X ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2016058026
OCLC
966971629
Other standard number
40027346480
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