Poiesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds

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Contents Introduction: Anthony J. Cascardi and Leah Middlebrook ix part i Poiesis on the Threshold of Modernity 1 Poiesis and Modernity at the Turn of the Spanish Sixteenth Century: Luis Alfonso de Carvallo and the Cisne de Apolo (1602) Leah Middlebrook 3 2 “Orphic Fictions”: Poesía and Poiesis in Cervantes Anthony J. Cascardi 19 3 Spiders and Flies: Imagining “The World” in Early Modern European Natural Philosophy Christopher Braider 43 4 Encyclopedism, Poiesis, and Modernity Marina S. Brownlee 67 5 From the Bibliotheca to the Garden and the Graveyard: Origins of the Poiesis of the Fantastic in Late SixteenthCentury Miscellanea David R. Castillo 87 part ii Case Studies: Poesía and Poiesis 6 Writing Religion: Sacromonte and the Literary Conventions of Orthodoxy Seth Kimmel 117 viii contents 7 Scrutinizing Early Modern Warfare in Latin Hexameters: The Austrias Carmen of Joannes Latinus (Juan Latino) Elizabeth R. Wright 139 8 Ribera’s Sagradas poesías as Poiesis of Modernity in Colonial Potosí Leonardo García-Pabón 159 part iii English and European Contexts 9 “A Super-Political Concernment”: Evolution and Revolution of Inward Light from Juan de Valdés to John Locke Julián Jiménez Heffernan 181 10 Failed New World Epics in Baroque Italy Nathalie Hester 201 11 How to Reconquer Poiesis? Florian’s Gonzalve de Cordoue, ou Grenade reconquise (1791) Fabienne Moore 225 12 The Opacity of Language and the Transparency of Being: On Góngora’s Poetics William Egginton 257 13 Sense and Equivalence in Góngora and the Spanish Mystics: A Credit Crisis Julio Baena 273 Afterword Bradley J. Nelson 291 Contributors 303 Index 307 ...