Cover
Title Page
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Baroque and the Cultures of Crises
Part I: The Baroque and Its Dark Sides
1. On the Notion of a Melancholic Baroque
2. Aesthetic Categories as Empire Administration Imperatives: The Case of the Baroque
Part II: Baroque Anxieties and Strategies of Survival
3. Of Baroque Holes and Baroque Folds
4. Models of Subjectivity in the Spanish Baroque: Quevedo and Gracián
5. Horror (Vacui): The Baroque Condition
Part III: Institutions and Subjectivities in Baroque Spain
6. From Hieroglyphic Presence to Representational Sign: An Other Point of View in the Auto Sacramental
7. The Challenges of Freedom: Social Reflexivity in the Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literary Field
8. Revisiting the Culture of the Baroque: Nobility, City, and Post-Cervantine Novella
Part IV: Strategies of Identity in the Colonial Context
9. Perspectives on Mestizaje in the Early Baroque: Inca Garcilaso and Cervantes
10. Freedom and Containment in Colonial Theology: Sor Juana’s Carta atenagórica
11. Sleeping with Corpses, Eating Hearts, and Walking Skulls: Criollo’s Subjectivity in Antonio de la Calancha and Bartolomé Arzans de Orsúa y Vela
Part V: The Baroque and Its Transgressive Recyclings
12. Baroque/Neobaroque/Ultrabaroque: Disruptive Readings of Modernity
Afterword: Redressing the Baroque
Contributors
Index