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This book considers the new ways time was experienced in the 16th- and 17th-century Hispanic world in the framework of global Catholicism. It examines how authors adapt Christ-centered conceptions of existence to accommodate both a volatile post-eschatological world and the increased dominance of mechanical clock time.
List of contents
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 ExercisesScheduled Devotion
Transcending
VanitasAugustine: 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 BrevitasCHAPTER THREE:
PIOUS SUBJECTS FOR A POST-MILLENARIAN NEW SPAIN
The Imperfect Conquest of Time
Mendieta's
Historia eclesiástica indiana: The End of
KairosGregorio López: Seizing Timelessness
Temporalizing the Life of Gregorio López
CHAPTER FOUR:
A NEW NEW JERUSALEM: SIGÜENZA Y GÓNGORA'S
PARAÍSO OCCIDENTALResignifying Baroque Space
The City as a Place of Memory
The Christic Bodies of the
PatriaCHAPTER 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
About the author
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.
Summary
This book considers the new ways time was experienced in the 16th- and 17th-century Hispanic world in the framework of global Catholicism. It examines how authors adapt Christ-centered conceptions of existence to accommodate both a volatile post-eschatological world and the increased dominance of mechanical clock time.
