The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-0-292-72307-8 (ISBN)
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Winner, Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Modern Language Association, 2010 The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture tracks the three spectacular forces of New World literary culture-cities, festivals, and wonder-from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, from the Old World to the New, and from Mexico to Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. It treats a multitude of imperialist and anti-imperialist texts in depth, including poetry, drama, protofiction, historiography, and journalism. While several of the landmark authors studied, including Hernan Cortes and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, are familiar, others have received remarkably little critical attention. Similarly, in spotlighting creole writers, Merrim reveals an intertextual tradition in Mexico that spans two centuries. Because the spectacular city reaches its peak in the seventeenth century, Merrim's book also theorizes and details the spirited work of the New World Baroque. The result is the rich examination of a trajectory that leads from the Renaissance ordered city to the energetic revolts of the spectacular city and the New World Baroque.
STEPHANIE MERRIM is Royce Family Professor of Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies at Brown University. Her previous books include Early Modern Women's Writing and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.
Preface Introduction. Road Map Chapter 1. Agile Platforms of the Spectacular City: The New World and the Old Chapter 2. Order and Concert Chapter 3. Balbuena's "La grandeza mexicana" and the Advent of the Spectacular City Chapter 4. Balbuena's Spectacular City and the Creole Cause Chapter 5. Engaging Plurality: Baroque Plenitude and the Spectacular City in Mexico Chapter 6. "To Know the All": The Spectacular Esoteric City in Mexico Chapter 7. Babel: Wild Work of the New World Baroque Appendix. Chronology of Principal Works Notes Works Cited Index
| Reihe/Serie | Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American & Latino Art & Culture |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 4 b&w photos |
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
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| ISBN-10 | 0-292-72307-5 / 0292723075 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-292-72307-8 / 9780292723078 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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