Research Catalog

Title

Poeisis and modernity in the old and new worlds / Anthony J. Cascardi and Leah Middlebrook, editors.

Publication

Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cascardi, Anthony J., 1953-
• Middlebrook, Leah, 1966-

Description

xv, 316 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This broad-ranging exploration argues that there was a special preoccupation with the nature and limits of poetry in early modern Spain and Europe, as well as especially vigorous poetic activity in this period. Contrary to what one might read in Hegel, the "prosification" of the world has remained an unfinished affair. Book jacket.

Series Statement

Hispanic issues ; v. 39

Uniform Title

Hispanic issues (Vanderbilt University) v. 39.

Subject

• 1450-1700
• Spanish literature > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
• European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism
• European literature > 17th century > History and criticism
• Literature > Philosophy

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Poiesis and modernity at the turn of the Spanish sixteenth century: Luis Alfonso de Carvallo and the Cisne de Apolo (1602) / Leah Middlebrook -- "Orphic fictions": poesia and poiesis in Cervantes / Anthony J. Cascardi -- Spiders and flies: imagining "the world" in early modern European natural philosophy / Christopher Braider -- Encyclopedism, poiesis, and modernity / Marina S. Brownlee -- From the bibliotheca to the garden and the graveyard: origins of the poiesis of the fantastic in late sixteenth-century miscellanea / David R. Castillo -- Writing religion: Sacromonte and the literary conventions of orthodoxy / Seth Kimmel -- Scrutinizing early modern warfare in Latin hexameters: the Austrias Carmen of Joannes Latinus (Juan Latino) / Elizabeth R. Wright -- Ribera's Sagradas poesías as poiesis of modernity in colonial potosí / Leonardo García-Pabón -- "A super-political concernment": evolution and revolution of inward light from Juan de Valdés to John Locke / Julián Jiménez Heffernan -- Failed new world epics in baroque Italy / Nathalie Hester -- How to reconquer poiesis? Florian's Gonzalve de Cordoue, ou Grenade reconquise (1791) / Fabienne Moore -- The opacity of language and the transparency of being: on Góngora's poetics / William Egginton -- Sense and equivalence in Góngora and the Spanish mystics: a credit crisis / Julio Baena.

ISBN

• 9780826518347 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0826518346 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780826518354 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0826518354 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011022684

OCLC

• 729863240
• SCSB-12757299

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library