Experiencing Time in the Early Modern Hispanic World

ISBN-13: 9781032463711 / Twarda / 2023 / 232 str.

Ariadna Garcia-Bryce

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This book considers the new ways time was experienced in the 16^th- and 17^th-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.

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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

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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.