Experiencing Time in the Early Modern Hispanic World

This book considers the new ways time was experienced in the 16th- and 17th-century Hispanic world in the framework of global Catholicism. It examines how authors adapt Christ-centered conceptions of existence to accommodate both a volatile post-eschatological world and the increased dominance of mechanical clock time.

Ariadna García-Bryce earned a BA in Comparative Literature from Yale a PhD in Spanish Literature from Princeton. Her publications, which include Transcending Textuality: Quevedo and Political Authority in the Age of Print (2011) and many articles published in distinguished peer-reviewed journals (e.g. Renaissance Studies, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Revista de estudios hispánicos, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Hispanic Review), have focused on a variety of topics within early modern Hispanism: the relationship between drama, religion, and painting; rhetoric and poetics; modern appropriations of Baroque aesthetics; gender representation; the connection between literary culture and incipient bureaucratization.

Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION: TIME IN EARLY MODERNITY "Scattered in Times" Time as Scythe Chronos Resurrected Chapter Overview CHAPTER ONE: Embracing Clock Time in Loyola's Spiritual Exercises Scheduled Devotion Transcending Vanitas Augustine: Time as a Problem Achieving Duration The Presence of Memory CHAPTER TWO: TIME TROUBLES IN TERESA OF ÁVILA'S LIBRO DE LA VIDA "We are not angels" Alumbradismo as Rejection of Time Schooling Memory The Time which is not One: Lux et Brevitas CHAPTER THREE: PIOUS SUBJECTS FOR A POST-MILLENARIAN NEW SPAIN The Imperfect Conquest of Time Mendieta's Historia eclesiástica indiana: The End of Kairos Gregorio López: Seizing Timelessness Temporalizing the Life of Gregorio López CHAPTER FOUR: A NEW NEW JERUSALEM: SIGÜENZA Y GÓNGORA'S PARAÍSO OCCIDENTAL Resignifying Baroque Space The City as a Place of Memory The Christic Bodies of the Patria CHAPTER FIVE: REDEEMED TEMPORALITY: THE INFINITE SELF IN SOR JUANA'S "PRIMERO SUEÑO" Dreaming Wonder The Permanence of Change Resisting Allegory Awakening Solar Time EPILOGUE BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX