Experiencing Time in the Early Modern Hispanic World

After Apocalypse

Ariadna García-Bryce

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781032463711
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000935325
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This book considers the new ways time was experienced in the sixteenth- and seventeeth-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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Time in Early Modernity
• 1 Embracing Clock Time in Loyola's Spiritual Exercises
• 2 Time Troubles in Teresa of Ávila's Libro de la vida
• 3 Pious Subjects for a Post-millenarian New Spain
• 4 A New New Jerusalem: Sigüenza y Góngora's Paraíso Occidental
• 5 Redeemed Temporality: The Infinite Self in Sor Juana’s “Primero sueño”
• Epilogue
• Works Cited
• Index