Hispanic Baroques

by Spadaccini, Nicholas; MARTIN-ESTUDILLO, LUIS

• ISBN13: 9780826514981
• ISBN10: 0826514987
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-30
• Publisher: Vanderbilt Univ Pr

Summary

Essays focus on Baroque as a concept and category of analysis which has been central to an understanding of Hispanic cultures during the last several hundred years

Table of Contents

Introduction : the Baroque and the cultures of crises
On the notion of a melancholic Baroque	p. 3
Aesthetic categories as empire administration imperatives : the case of the Baroque	p. 20
Of Baroque holes and Baroque folds	p. 55
Models of subjectivity in the Spanish Baroque : Quevedo and Gracian	p. 72
Horror (Vacui) : the Baroque condition	p. 87
From hieroglyphic presence to representational sign : an other point of view in the Auto Sacramental	p. 107
The challenges of freedom : social reflexivity in the seventeenth-century Spanish literary field	p. 137
Revisiting the culture of the Baroque : nobility, city, and post-Cervantine novella	p. 162
Perspectives on Mestizaje in the early Baroque : Inca Garcilaso and Cervantes	p. 187
Freedom and containment in colonial theology : Sor Juana's Carta atenagorica	p. 205
Sleeping with corpses, eating hearts, and walking skulls : Criollo's subjectivity in Antonio de la Calancha and Bartolome Arzans de Orsua y Vela	p. 222
Baroque/neobaroque/ultrabaroque : disruptive readings of modernity	p. 241
Afterword : redressing the Baroque	p. 283
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