The Image of Celestina - Enrique Fernandez

The Image of Celestina

Illustrations, Paintings, and Advertisements
Buch | Hardcover
304 Seiten
2024
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4978-7 (ISBN)
73,55 inkl. MwSt
This book examines imagery of the eponymous character from La Celestina from the early sixteenth century until today.
La Celestina, a Spanish literary masterpiece second only in importance to Don Quixote in Spanish literature, has been shaped by the inclusion of images from its very first edition in 1499. The subsequent five centuries were punctuated by many illustrated editions; imaginary portraits of the eponymous procuress Celestina by painters such as Murillo, Goya, and Picasso; and, more recently, screen and stage adaptations. Celestina became the prototype from which later representations of procuresses and bawds derived.

The Image of Celestina sheds light on the visual culture that developed around La Celestina, including paintings, illustrations, and advertisements. Enrique Fernández examines La Celestina as a mixed-media text, incorporating methods from disciplines such as art history and women’s and cinema studies, and considers a variety of images including promotional posters, lobby pictures, and playbills of theatrical and cinematic adaptations of the book. Using a visual studies approach, The Image of Celestina ultimately illuminates the culture of Celestina, a mythical figure, who surpasses the literary text in which she originated.

Enrique Fernández is a professor of Spanish at the University of Manitoba.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Summary of La Celestina (c. 1499)

Introduction: The Visual Culture of Celestina
Five hundred years of images of Celestina
The methodological frame of visual studies
Organization of the book

1. Illustrating Celestina
The first period of illustrated editions of LC (1499 to 1616)
Fadrique de Basilea's Comedia de Calisto y Melibea (Burgos, 1499?)
The iconographic program of the early illustrations
LC title pages
The second period of illustrated editions of LC (1842–present)
Conclusions: Two periods, two readings

2. Painting Celestina
Images of procuresses before LC
Dutch painting: Celestina and the Prodigal Son
From Goya to Picasso and beyond
Conclusion: Reimagining Celestina

3. Advertising Celestina
Promotional images of Celestina: Book covers, playbills, and posters
LC covers
Posters, playbills, and lobby cards
Conclusion: Celestina through the prism of advertising

Conclusion: Kaleidoscopic Celestina

Illustrations

Notes
Bibliography
Secondary sources cited
Old edition of LC cited
Modern edition of LC cited
Images cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Toronto Iberic
Zusatzinfo 44 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 235 mm
Gewicht 560 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-4875-4978-4 / 1487549784
ISBN-13 978-1-4875-4978-7 / 9781487549787
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