Experiencing Time in the Early Modern Hispanic World

After Apocalypse
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-46373-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 263 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature

This book considers the new ways time was experienced in the sixteenth- and seventeeth-century Hispanic world in the framework of global Catholicism. It underscores the crucial role that the imitation of Christ plays in modeling how representative writers physically and mentally interiorize temporal impermanence as the Messiah’s suffering body becomes a paradigmatic as well as malleable marker of the avatars of earthly history. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which authors adapt Christ-centered conceptions of existence to accommodate both a volatile post-eschatological world and the increased dominance of mechanical clock time. As novel means of communing with Christ emerge, so too do new modes of sensing and understanding time, unleashing unprecedented cultural and literary reinvention. This is demonstrated through close analyses of writings by such influential figures as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Saint Teresa of Ávila, Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

García-Bryce, Ariadna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Spanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Portugiesische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION: TIME IN EARLY MODERNITY

"Scattered in Times"

Time as Scythe

Chronos Resurrected

Chapter Overview

CHAPTER ONE:

Embracing Clock Time in Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises

Scheduled Devotion

Transcending Vanitas

Augustine: Time as a Problem

Achieving Duration

The Presence of Memory

CHAPTER TWO:

TIME TROUBLES IN TERESA OF ÁVILA’S LIBRO DE LA VIDA

"We are not angels"

Alumbradismo as Rejection of Time

Schooling Memory

The Time which is not One: Lux et Brevitas

CHAPTER THREE:

PIOUS SUBJECTS FOR A POST-MILLENARIAN NEW SPAIN

The Imperfect Conquest of Time

Mendieta’s Historia eclesiástica indiana: The End of Kairos

Gregorio López: Seizing Timelessness

Temporalizing the Life of Gregorio López

CHAPTER FOUR:

A NEW NEW JERUSALEM: SIGÜENZA Y GÓNGORA’S PARAÍSO OCCIDENTAL

Resignifying Baroque Space

The City as a Place of Memory

The Christic Bodies of the Patria

CHAPTER FIVE:

REDEEMED TEMPORALITY: THE INFINITE SELF IN SOR JUANA’S "PRIMERO SUEÑO"

Dreaming Wonder

The Permanence of Change

Resisting Allegory

Awakening

Solar Time

EPILOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Ariadna García-Bryce earned a BA in Comparative Literature from Yale a PhD in Spanish Literature from Princeton. Her publications, which include Transcending Textuality: Quevedo and Political Authority in the Age of Print (2011) and many articles published in distinguished peer-reviewed journals (e.g. Renaissance Studies, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Revista de estudios hispánicos, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Hispanic Review), have focused on a variety of topics within early modern Hispanism: the relationship between drama, religion, and painting; rhetoric and poetics; modern appropriations of Baroque aesthetics; gender representation; the connection between literary culture and incipient bureaucratization.