Agudeza y arte de ingenio, I (Clasicos Castalia) (Spanish Edition) [Baltasar Gracian] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Arte de ingenio. 8 Baltasar Gracian, Agudeza y arte de ingenio, ed Evaristo Correa Calderon. 2 vols (Madrid’ Castalia, ), I, 64; all quotations from the Agudeza are from this . Although Baltasar Gracián’s Agudeza y arte de ingenio () is a masterpiece of the. Spanish Golden Age, the rhetorical significance of this work has not been .
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Baltasar Gracián
That the conceit is a special case of the metaphor has long been a commonplace of modern critical studies,7 and both May and Mazzeo in- corporate this “natural” assumption into their studies. Emir Duquela marked it as to-read Mar 12, The art of wit has more in common with architecture and music than it has with rhetoric, since it aspires to beauty through proportion and symmetry and cannot be reduced to a clearly defined methodology.
Tradition identified the origins of the idea with Pythagoras, and it was argued by Plato. Es el sujeto sobre quien se discurre y pondera—ya en conceptu- 4 “An Interpretation of Gracian’s Agudeza y arte de ingenio,” HR, 16 Silvina marked it as to-read Jul 26, Catherine Osborne rated it liked it Jul 14, Its methods involve exploiting the possibilities of analogies to forge new concepts, as Donne does in his explorations of human and divine love, and as Gracian does in formulating his peculiarly “aes- thetic” conception of the conceit.
No trivia or quizzes yet. He acquired fame as a preacher, although some of his oratorical displays, such as reading a letter sent from Hell from the pulpit, were frowned upon by his superiors.
And, Gracian argues, since the understanding is analogous to the senses in perceiving objects its own thoughts and since the understanding is the highest mental faculty, the artistic arrangement of its objects is logi- cally the highest of all the arts.
Oxford University Press, ], p. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Tijana rated it did not like it Aug 02, Gracian has not reopened this discussion, but he has made use of Spanish words derived directly from the major terms of that debate— only he attempts to forge a unity where the ancients had posited an un- breachable antinomy. At first this common something is described as the artificioso, a key word defined by Parker as “artistic, skilful, subtle, creative, inventive” p.
In short, Gracian’s Agudeza is not only the summa of agudezq that Curtius described, but a link in the often ill-defined passageway from the seven- teenth to the nineteenth century, and a work that begins to take on new relevance to the last decades of the twentieth. This artistic arrangement of thought is, of course, wit in general, with the conceit its basic unit. It is among the last serious works of Western literature to give rhetoric a place in the first rank of the various intellectual disciplines, and in this quality it seems an alien, even forbidding treatise, bristling as it does with references to a largely forgotten but intricate body of lore much like the poetry it celebrates.
Art in Gracián’s Agudeza.’ | Hugh Grady –
John the Baptist is the Phoenix of the Saints because, martyred before the Redemption, he had to spend a term in hell or, some said, in limbo before being raised when Christ “har- rowed hell” after the Resurrection; thus he is the only Christian saint who underwent this spiritual “death” before glorification in heaven, just as iingenio phoenix must die in his funeral ingdnio before being reborn.
Would you like to tell us about a lower price? May produced two thoughtful and useful commen- taries on the Agudeza, but he concluded that Gracian was confused on the very point most interesting to modern criticism, the distinction be- tween the “ordinary” metaphor and the seventeenth-century or Meta- 1 European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, trans Willard R Trask [New York Pan- theon,pp.
Gazmend Kryeziu marked it as to-read Oct 12, There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Eduardo Losada marked it as to-read Jun 26, We can see why he had earlier designated the conceit of proportion as the “princi- ple real” “royal foundation” of the art of wit I.
Agudeza y arte de ingenio
Such a conception is a decisive shift from classical mimetic theory and an important step in the development of modern aesthetic theory. GRADY 31 or struggling toward—a conception of what we now call the “fine arts,” distinguished from df practical arts by an aspiration to a “beauty” that is autotelic.
Son los tropos y figuras retoricas materia y como fundamento para que sobre ellos levante sus primores la agudeza, y lo que la retorica 28 This lineage is taken from William K. The “art” of ingenio retains something of the indefinable quality captured by that other derivative of the Latin ingenium, “genius.
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Careo San Ambrosio en el Bautista su nacimiento y su muerte, hallo que aquel fue por profecfa, y esta por la verdad; exprimio luego la correlation, y dijo: Click here to sign up. Si toda arte, si toda ciencia que tiende a perficionar actos del entendimiento es noble, la que aspira a realizar el mas remon- tado y sutil bien, merecera el renombre de sol de la inteligencia, consorte del ingenio, progenitora del concepto y agudeza.
Jimmyx rated it really liked it Feb 23, Es el arte cuarta y moderna causa de la sutileza. Jorge y Beatriz se miraron Con un afecto encendido Que entrandoles por los ojos Nunca vieron elpehgro.
But the marriage has changed the nature of both spouses, for genius has been seen to have its tain spring, let wit boast its mental source.