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Contents Introduction: The Baroque and the Cultures of Crises Nicholas Spadaccini and Luis MartÆn-Estudillo ix part i The Baroque and Its Dark Sides 1 On the Notion of a Melancholic Baroque Fernando R. De la Flor 3 2 Aesthetic Categories as Empire Administration Imperatives: The Case of the Baroque Hernçn Vidal 20 part ii Baroque Anxieties and Strategies of Survival 3 Of Baroque Holes and Baroque Folds William Egginton 55 4 Models of Subjectivity in the Spanish Baroque: Quevedo and Graciçn Fernando Ordùûez 72 5 Horror (vacui): The Baroque Condition David R. Castillo 87 part iii Institutions and Subjectivities in Baroque Spain 6 From Hieroglyphic Presence to Representational Sign: An Other Point of View in the Auto Sacramental" Bradley J. Nelson 107 7 The Challenges of Freedom: Social Reflexivity in the Seventeenth-Century Literary Field Carlos M. GutiÄrrez 137 8 Revisiting the Culture of the Baroque: Nobility, City, and Post-Cervantine Novella Nieves Romero-DÆaz 162 part iv Strategies of Identity in the Colonial Context 9 Perspectives on Mestizaje in the Early Baroque: Inca Garcilaso and Cervantes Silvia B. Suçrez 187 10 Freedom and Containment in the Colonial Theology of Sor Juana InÄs de la Cruz Paola MarÆn 205 11 Sleeping with Corpses, Eating Hearts, and Walking Skulls. Criollo's Subjectivity in Antonio de la Calancha and BartolomÄ Arzans de Ors£a y Vela Leonardo GarcÆa-Pabùn 222 part v The Baroque and Its Transgressive Recyclings 12 Baroque/Neobaroque/Ultrabaroque: Disruptive Readings of Modernity Mabel Moraûa 241 Afterword Edward H. Friedman 283 Contributors 307 Index 311
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Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Baroque literature -- History and criticism.