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Although literary historians generally connect the rise of the novel to the needs of the middle classes of England, Maiorino demonstrates that its deepest roots are in the culture of indigence that developed at the peripheries of Renaissance society and challenged—even parodied—its authoritarian ambitions. Seen in this light, Lazarillo de Tormes emerges as a key text in understanding the novel's purchase on visions of escape from authority into alternative modes of existence.  Maiorino grounds his far-reaching arguments in recent theories of textuality and the practices of everyday life. His book will be important reading for all those concerned with the Renaissance, Spanish history and culture, and, more generally, theories of the novel.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49958454788369,"sku":"CIN0271022795G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0271022795.jpg?v=1750908815"},{"product_id":"leonardo-da-vinci-book-giancarlo-maiorino-9780271008172","title":"Leonardo da Vinci","description":"This study is the first to consider the whole body of Leonardo's works with an eye to a comprehensive interpretation that combines both cultural history and the history of details. According to Maiorino, Leonardo's was a myth making mode of activity that had a Daedalian range and affected art and technology alike. As both artist and inventor, Leonardo did not separate reason from experience, empiricism from abstraction, an attitude Maiorino characterizes as \"Anti-Humanism.\" Rather than accepting the earlier view that the culture of the Renaissance was divided, he argues that Anti-Humanism was present from the start in such founders as Petrarch and Alberti and continued to be a current in later authors and artists; hence the significance of Leonardo to Humanism and to Baroque and Renaissance culture at large.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51305780740369,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51305780871441,"sku":"GOR007639916","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0271008172.jpg?v=1751071038"},{"product_id":"portrait-of-eccentricity-book-giancarlo-maiorino-9780271023205","title":"The Portrait of Eccentricity","description":"In this companion to his The Cornucopian Mind and the Baroque Unity of the Arts, Maiorino examines the links between Renaissance and the modern versions of the Groteseque.  In this interdisciplinary study, the term \"eccentricity\" refers to styles of playful extravagance. Maiorino focuses on the rhetorical figures of excess employed by a critic-historian (Giorgio Vasari), on the willful artificiality of a painter (Giuseppe Arcimboldo), and on the programmatic and interpretive commentary of a theorist (Gregorio Comanini).  Maiorino draws subtle and persuasive connections between the images he discusses and the grotesque \"face\" of sixteenth-century poetics and rhetoric. He sets the mannerist and the grotesque against the philosophical seriousness of Renaissance humanism, interpreting them as a celebration of the ludic and fantastic possibilities of art itself. Aiming at pleasure rather than instruction, this art plays on the boundaries of the natural and the artificial, the credible and the impossible, taking delight in parody, excess, disjunction, and exaggeration.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53181202956561,"sku":"NLS9780271023205","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780271023205.jpg?v=1772237054"},{"product_id":"cornucopian-mind-and-the-baroque-unity-of-the-arts-book-giancarlo-maiorino-9780271027906","title":"The Cornucopian Mind and the Baroque Unity of the Arts","description":"This comparative and interdisciplinary study focuses on a cluster of epoch-making themes that emerged in the late sixteenth century. Michelangelo and Giordano Bruno are taken as the founding fathers of the Baroque, and we see that beyond the Alps their lessons were echoed in Montaigne, Cervantes, and the Counter-Reformation culture of the Mediterranean basin. Maiorino shows that the common denominator that links the origins of the Baroque to its maturity is the concept of form as \"process,\" which is then articulated into chapters on the formative unity of the arts, art forms at the threshold, and the development from humanist perfection to Baroque perfectibility. Such an evolution in literature and the arts is situated in relation to the age of explorations (Columbus), scientific inventions (the telescope), and the fundamental shift from the enclosed Ptolemic system to the open universe of the Copernican revolution.  At the Baroque point of origin, the inner vitality of Michelangelo's emphasis on creation as \"process\" rather than completed act taught a crucial lesson to Baroque artists. Their response to the infinite and open universe of the \"New Science\" was one that took part to be as dynamic and metamorphic as life itself. It is in the context of \"open\" forms within an \"open\" universe that this study moves from Michelangelo to Bruno. His poetics of immeasurable abundance set \"process\" at the very core of the Baroque art, thought, and science.   Applied to the forms of art, growth and metamorphosis are linked to what Maiorino calls (borrowing from Mikhail Bakhtin) the Baroque chronotope of formation, which refers to forms responding to the dynamics of space-time interactions. Such interactions were exhaustive and even tested the boundaries between reality and fiction, creation and denial, conformity and criticism from picaresque Spain to middle-class Holland. And it is the painting of a Dutch artist—Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer— that is taken as a symbol of the Baroque reconciliation of humanist learning with human or humane understanding. Such a humanizing attitude also marked the final transformation of humanist ideals of perfection into the Baroque experience of human perfectibility.  This book will be of importance to all scholars concerned with the history of ideas, cultural history, and the Baroque in literature and art.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53181210722577,"sku":"NLS9780271027906","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780271027906.jpg?v=1772237085"},{"product_id":"first-pages-book-giancarlo-maiorino-9780271058740","title":"First Pages","description":"First Pages proves the power of the title to connect the reader to the thematic, cultural, and literary context of the writing as a whole. 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