Description:
Painting on the Page devises critical strategies that combine psychoanalysis, feminism, semiotics, and philosophy to examine late 19th-century and 20th-century Spanish and Spanish-American literature in relation to painting and to larger questions of art and literary history.

The authors widen the theoretical lines to Hispanism, where approaches of this kind are rare. The book raises crucial concerns that relocate the art works and texts in question beyond the historical or aesthetic framework in which they have been traditionally palced.


CONTENTS:

List of Figures......ix

Preface......xiii

Acknowledgments......xxi

Chapter 1. Reflections on the Mirrored Room: From Work to Word......1

Chapter 2. The Temptation of Saint Julian in Emilia Pardo Bazan’s The House of Ulloa: Bosch, Goya, and Spain’s Fin de Siecle......25

Chapter 3. All the World’s a Museum: The Marquis of Bradomin’s Textual Exhibition......51

Chapter 4. The Infinite Progression: Love and Art in Prelude to Pleasure by Pedro Salinas......77

Chapter 5. Male (De)Signs: Art and Society in Luis Martin-Santos......103

Chapter 6. Exiled in The Garden of Earthly Delights: From Hieronymus Bosch to Francisco Ayala......129

Chapter 7. Visions of a Painted Garden: Jose Donoso’s Dialogue with Art......169

Chapter 8. In Ekphrastic Ecstasy: Mario Vargas Llosa as the Painter of Desire......197

Chapter 9. Dada at the Tropicana: Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Readymade Art......237

Epi(dia)logue......257

Notes......275