Experiencing Time in the Early Modern Hispanic World

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.

• AcknowledgmentsINTRODUCTION: TIME IN EARLY MODERNITY"Scattered in Times"Time as ScytheChronos ResurrectedChapter OverviewCHAPTER ONE:Embracing Clock Time in Loyola’s Spiritual ExercisesScheduled DevotionTranscending VanitasAugustine: Time as a ProblemAchieving DurationThe Presence of MemoryCHAPTER TWO:TIME TROUBLES IN TERESA OF ÁVILA’S LIBRO DE LA VIDA"We are not angels"Alumbradismo as Rejection of TimeSchooling MemoryThe Time which is not One: Lux et BrevitasCHAPTER THREE:PIOUS SUBJECTS FOR A POST-MILLENARIAN NEW SPAINThe Imperfect Conquest of TimeMendieta’s Historia eclesiástica indiana: The End of KairosGregorio López: Seizing TimelessnessTemporalizing the Life of Gregorio López CHAPTER FOUR:A NEW NEW JERUSALEM: SIGÜENZA Y GÓNGORA’S PARAÍSO OCCIDENTALResignifying Baroque SpaceThe City as a Place of MemoryThe Christic Bodies of the PatriaCHAPTER FIVE:REDEEMED TEMPORALITY: THE INFINITE SELF IN SOR JUANA’S "PRIMERO SUEÑO"Dreaming WonderThe Permanence of ChangeResisting Allegory AwakeningSolar TimeEPILOGUEBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX