BACK COVER: Spadaccini/Talens
Hispanic Issues
Volume 14

“The renewed interest in Gracián represented by this outstanding collection of essays demonstrates the legitimacy of the enterprise of academic scholarship. Whereas in recent decades Gracián, without denying his cultural importance, has been read primarily for the ingenuity of his rhetorical propositions and the complexity of his intellectual thought, Rhetoric and Politics underscores the importance of ‘Gracián’ as a site of textual production for examining questions regarding subject formation, sign systems and semiotic interpretation, technologies of social control, and social ideology. Rhetoric and Politics will do much to stimulate a renewed interest in Gracián and in the originality of Spanish Baroque culture.” David William Foster, Arizona State University

In recent years there has been a revival of interest in the writings of Baltasar Gracián, a seventeenth-century Spanish Jesuit who explored the political uses of rhetoric. Gracián is best known in the United States for a bestselling collection of his aphorisms titled The Art of Worldly Wisdom.

Contributors: Luis F. Avilés, Anthony J. Cascardi, David Castillo, Jorge Checa, William Egginton, Alban K. Forcione, Edward H. Friedman, Carlos Hernández-Sacristán, Isabel C. Livosky, Michael Nerlich, Oscar Pereira, Malcolm K. Read, and Francisco J. Sánchez.

Nicholas Spadaccini is professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota.

Jenaro Talens is professor of literary theory and film at the University of Valencia, Spain.

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Rhetoric and Politics

Baltasar Gracian and the New World Order

Nicholas Spadaccini and Jenaro Talens, editors