Celestina's Brood - Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American Literature

"This collection of essays is valuable not only for the excellence of the individual pieces but also as the critical itinerary of an eminent and influential Hispanist. Because Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria has been at the center of critical debates in Hispanism over the last two decades, his evolution as a critic also illuminates changes in the discipline from the sixties to the present. This is a major collection of essays by one of the leading Hispanists in the world today."--Gustavo Perez Firmat, Duke University

List of contents

Acknowledgments ix

Preamble 1

1. Celestina's Brood 7

2. The Life and Adventures of Cipión: Cervantes and the Picaresque 45

3. Poetry and Painting in Lope's El castigo sin venganza 66

4. Caledrón's La vida es sueño: Mixed-(Up) Monsters 81

5. Threats in Caledrón: La vida es sueño 1:303-8 114

6. Reflections on the Espejo de paciencia 128

7. Poetics and Modernity in Juan de Espinosa Medrano, Known as Lunarejo 149

8. Socrates Among the Weeds: Blacks and History in Carpentier's El siglo de las luces 170

9. Guillén as Baroque: Meaning in Motivos de son 194

10. Plain Song: Sarduy's Cobra 212

Notes 239

Index 273

About the author

Roberto González-Echevarría

Product details

• Authors: Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto González Echevarría
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.1993
• EAN: 9780822313533
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1353-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Weight: 635 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Spanisch, Südamerika, Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko)