Poiesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds
Ed. Anthony J. Cascardi and Leah Middlebrook
This broad-ranging exploration argues that there was a special preoccupation with the nature and limits of poetry in early modern Spain and Europe, as well as especially vigorous poetic activity in this period. Contrary to what one might read in Hegel, the "prosification" of the world has remained an unfinished affair.
Poiesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds, available from Vanderbilt University Press
Table of Contents
Introduction
Anthony J. Cascardi and Leah Middlebrook
Part I. Poiesis on the Threshold of Modernity
Chapter 1
Poiesis and Modernity at the Turn of the Spanish Sixteenth Century: Luís Alfonso de Carvallo and the Cisne de Apolo (1602)
Leah Middlebrook
Chapter 2
“Orphic Fictions”: Poesía and Poiesis in Cervantes
Anthony J. Cascardi
Chapter 3
Spiders and Flies: Imagining "The World" in Early Modern European Natural Philosophy
Christopher Braider
Chapter 4
Encyclopedism, Poiesis and Modernity
Marina S. Brownlee
Chapter 5
From the Bibliotheca, to the Garden, and the Graveyard: Origins of the Poiesis of the Fantastic in Late Sixteenth-Century Miscellanea
David Castillo
Part II. Case Studies: Poesía and Poiesis
Chapter 6
Writing Religion: Sacromonte and the Literary Conventions of Orthodoxy
Seth Kimmel
Chapter 7
Scrutinizing Early Modern Warfare in Latin Hexameters: the Austrias Carmen of Joannes Latinus (Juan Latino)
Elizabeth R. Wright
Chapter 8
Ribera’s Sagradas Poesías as Poiesis of Modernity in Colonial Potosí
Leonardo García Pabón
Part III. English and European Contexts
Chapter 9
“A Super-Political Concernment”: Evolution and Revolution of Inward Light from Juan de Valdés to John Locke
Julian Jiménez Heffernan
Chapter 10
Failed New World Epics in Baroque Italy
Nathalie Hester
Chapter 11
How to Reconquer Poiesis? Florian’s Gonzalve de Cordoue ou Grenade Reconquise (1791)
Fabienne Moore
Chapter 12
The Opacity of Language and the Transparency of Being: On Góngora's Poetics
William Egginton
Chapter 13
Sense and Equivalence in Góngora and the Spanish Mystics: a Credit Crisis
Julio Baena
Afterword
Bradley J. Nelson