Essays on the Literary Baroque in Spain and Spanish America

by John Beverley

The Hispanic Baroque is a Janus-faced phenomenon, one of its faces peering at the sunset of feudalism, the other at the dawn of European modernity. This collection of essays seeks to engage with this paradox and its consequences for understanding Spanish and Latin American literary and cultural history. Conceived in response to Roberto Gonz lez Echevarr a's influential Celestina's Brood: Continuities of the Baroque in Spain and Latin America,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855661756
• ISBN13: 9781855661752
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Tamesis Books
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"