Experiencing Time in the Early Modern Hispanic World: After Apocalypse (Routledge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature)

Synopsis

This book considers the new ways time was experienced in the 16th- and 17th-century Hispanic world in the framework of global Catholicism. It underscores the crucial role that the imitation of Christ plays in modeling how representative writers physically and mentally interiorize temporal impermanence as the Messiah’s suffering body becomes a paradigmatic as well as malleable marker of the avatars of earthly history. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which authors adapt Christ-centered conceptions of existence to accommodate both a volatile post-eschatological world and the increased dominance of mechanical clock time. As novel means of communing with Christ emerge, so too do new modes of sensing and understanding time, unleashing unprecedented cultural and literary reinvention. This is demonstrated through close analyses of writings by such influential figures as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Saint Teresa of Ávila, Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

Copyright:

2023

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ISBN-13:

9781000935301

Related ISBNs:

9781032463735, 9781032463711, 9781003381389

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

09/19/23

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N/A

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No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Language Arts

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