Censorship And Art In Pre-Enlightment Lima

Censorship And Art In Pre-Enlightment Lima

Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo's Diálogo de los Muertos: La Causa Académica

  • Auteur: Williams, Jerry M. (ed. and trans)
  • Éditeur: Scripta Humanistica
  • Collection: Latin American Literature
  • ISBN: 1882528069
  • Lieu de publication:  Potomac , United States
  • Année de publication: 1994
  • Pages: 220
  • Langue: Anglais

This is the first translation and critical edition of Peralta's work. The Diálogo, an allegorical satire, has challenged scholars for centuries; it represents a critique of pre-Enlightenment academies and a defense of artistic freedom. The study focuses on issues of colonial discourse and status, literary convention and censorship, social tradition and crisis.

  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part One
    • Peralta and his Era
    • Academic and Literary Culture
    • University Politics and Poetic Certámenes
  • Part Two
    • Cultural Perceptions
    • Peralta and Feijóo
  • Part Three
    • Forms of Censorship
    • Decoding the Text
    • Facsimile
    • Translation
  • Catalogue of Works
  • Glossary
    • A
    • B
    • C
    • E
    • F
    • G
    • L
    • M
    • O
    • R
    • S
    • T
    • V
    • Z
  • Bibliography

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