The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture / / Stephanie Merrim.

The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture tracks the three spectacular forces of New World literary culture—cities, festivals, and wonder—from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, from the Old World to the New, and from Mexico to Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. It treats...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2010
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (377 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION Road Map
  • One Agile Platforms of the Spectacular City: The New World and the Old
  • Two Order and Concert
  • Three Balbuena’s “La grandeza mexicana” and the Advent of the Spectacular City
  • Four Balbuena’s Spectacular City and the Creole Cause
  • Five Engaging Plurality: Baroque Plenitude and the Spectacular City in Mexico
  • Six “To Know the All”: The Spectacular Esoteric City in Mexico
  • Seven Babel: Wild Work of the Baroque
  • Appendix Chronology of Principal Works
  • NOTES
  • WORKS CITED
  • INDEX