Poiesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds (eBook)

CONTENTSIntroductionAnthony J. Cascardi and Leah MiddlebrookPoiesis on the Threshold of ModernityPoiesis and Modernity at the Turn of the Spanish Sixteenth Century: Luis Alfonso de Carvallo and the Cisne de Apolo (1602)Leah Middlebrook"Orphic Fictions": Poesia and Poiesis in CervantesAnthony J. CascardiSpiders and Flies: Imagining "The World" in Early Modern European Natural PhilosophyChristopher BraiderEncyclopedism, Poiesis, and ModernityMarina S. BrownleeFrom the Bibliotheca to the Garden and the Graveyard: Origins of the Poiesis of the Fantastic in Late SixteenthCentury MiscellaneaDavid R. CastilloCase Studies: Poesia and PoiesisWriting Religion: Sacromonte and the Literary Conventions of OrthodoxySeth KimmelScrutinizing Early Modern Warfare in Latin Hexameters: The Austrias Carmen of Joannes Latinus (Juan Latino)Elizabeth R. WrightRibera's Sagradas poesias as Poiesis of Modernity in Colonial PotosiLeonardo GarciaPabonEnglish and European Contexts"A SuperPolitical Concernment": Evolution and Revolution of Inward Light from Juan de Valdes to John LockeJulian Jimenez HeffernanFailed New World Epics in Baroque ItalyNathalie HesterHow to Reconquer Poiesis? Florian's Gonzalve de Cordoue, ou Grenade reconquise (1791)Fabienne MooreThe Opacity of Language and the Transparency of Being: On Gongora's PoeticsWilliam EggintonSense and Equivalence in Gongora and the Spanish Mystics: A Credit CrisisJulio BaenaAfterwordBradley J. Nelson