Autorentext

Mary E. Barnard is a professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the Pennsylvania State University.

Frederick A. de Armas is Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago..

Klappentext

This book investigates new ways in which writers and artists of early modern Spain conceived of space through the lens of what recent studies have called the spatial turn and explores space as a cultural construct.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Spatial Scene
Part 1: Spaces of Voicing, Intellectual Inquiry, and the Sublime

1. Acoustic Spaces: Vocal Performance and Trauma in Sonnets
   Fernando de Herrera and Mary E. Barnard
2. “Ward Off This Gloomy Darkness”: Spaces of Conflict and Sublimity in Calderón’s La vida es sueño
   Frederick A. de Armas
3. The Space of Memory: Three Sixteenth-Century Iberian Examples
   Marina S. Brownlee

4. Geographic Games: Cosmic Mapping and Make-Believe in Jewish Thought, Medieval Alexander Romances, and Cervantes’s Modern Fiction
   Keith Budner

   Part 2: Spaces for the Performance of Alternate Realities

5. Early Modern Geotagging in Cervantes’s El coloquio de los perros
   Carolyn A. Nadeau
6. Eluding Surveillance and Repression in Early Modern Madrid: Manufacturing Safety through Street Performances in Cervantes’s La gitanilla
   Matías A. Spector
7. Performance Space in Cervantes’s Pedro de Urdemalas
   Edward H. Friedman

8. The Person of a King: Sovereignty, Performance, and Court Spaces in Three Royal Imposter Plays
   Christopher B. Weimer

   Part 3: Sacred Spaces

9. Poeticizing Spaces in Seventeen-Century Religious Poetry
   María Cristina Quintero
10. Mirrors, Self Portraits, and Visionary Exemplarity: An Analysis of the Guadalupe Chapel, Royal Discalced Convent, Madrid.
    Rosilie Hernández
11. The Spatial Display of Poetry in Recibimiento al obispo Pimentel (1629)
    Victor Sierra Matute

12. Spaces of Death: The Virgin of the Arch and the Cult of the Dead in María de Zayas’s La fuerza del Amor
    Ryan D. Giles

    Contributors