Poiesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds

Anthony J. Cascardi is Ancker Professor of Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish at the University of California, Berkeley, and Dean of Arts and Humanities. He is the author of Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age, The Subject of Modernity, and Consequences of Enlightenment.Leah Middlebrook is associate professor of comparative literature and Romance languages at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Imperial Lyric: New Poetry and New Subjects in Early Modern Spain.