Essays on the literary Baroque in Spain and Spanish America / John Beverley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beverley, John, 1943-

Series:

Colección Támesis. Monografías ; Serie A, 265.

Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 265

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Baroque literature--History and criticism.

Baroque literature.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

x, 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge ; Rochester, NY : Tamesis, 2008.

Language Note:

Essays in English and Spanish.

Summary:

The Hispanic Baroque is a Janus-faced phenomenon, one of its faces peering at the sunset of feudalism, the other at the dawn of European modernity. This collection of essays seeks to engage with this paradox and its consequences for understanding Spanish and Latin American literary and cultural history. Conceived in response to Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria's influential Celestina's Brood: Continuities of the Baroque in Spain and Latin America, and spanning many years of Beverley's own intellectual trajectory, it includes material already in the public domain, together with much that is new, previously unpublished or long unavailable. An Introduction outlines the ongoing scholarly discussion about the nature of the Baroque in both Spain and Spanish America. The essays deal respectively with Luis de Gongora's Soledades; the picaresque novel; the Baroque pastoral; Gracian's theory of "wit" and the equation of wit and power; and the relation among Baroque writing, colonial hegemony, and the formation of a criollo culture in Spanish Amerca. A section on Baroque historicism suggests some ways of using the Baroque to reflect on our contemporary situation, and the volume concludes with a wide-ranging conversation about the Baroque and Hispanism between the author and Fernando Gomez Herrero, a young scholar strongly influenced by postcolonial studies.

Contents:

1 The language of contradiction: Aspects of Gongora's Soledades 23

2 The production of solitude: Gongora and the State 54

3 Sobre Gongora y el gongorismo colonial 72

4 Lazarillo y la acumulacion originaria: notas sobre la picaresca 85

5 La economia politica del locus amoenus 102

6 Gracian, or politics 113

7 Sobre la supuesta modernidad del Apologetico de Juan de Espinosa Medrano 123

8 Baroque historicism: Then and now 136

9 Are Golden-Age studies obsolete? A conversation with Fernando Gomez Herrero 149.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781855661752

1855661756

OCLC:

213855833