Celestina's brood : continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American literatures
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Celestina's brood : continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American literatures
Duke Univeristy Press, 1993
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-272) and index
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Published in 1499 and centered on the figure of a bawd and witch, Fernando de Rojas' dark and disturbing Celestina was destined to become the most suppressed classic in Spanish literary history. Routinely ignored in Spanish letters, the book nonetheless echoes through contemporary Spanish and Latin American literature. This is the phenomenon that Celestina's Brood explores.
Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, one of the most eminent and influential critics of Hispanic literature writing today, uses Rojas' text as his starting point to offer an exploration of modernity in the Hispanic literary tradition, and of the Baroque as an expression of the modern. His analysis of Celestina reveals the relentless probing of the limits of language and morality that mark the work as the beginning of literary modernity in Spanish, and the start of a tradition distinguished by a penchant for the excesses of the Baroque. Gonzalez Echevarria pursues this tradition and its meaning through the works of major figures such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderon de la Barca, Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nicolas Guillen, and Severo Sarduy, as well as through the works of lesser-known authors.
By revealing continuities of the Baroque, Celestina's Brood cuts across conventional distinctions between Spanish and Latin American literary traditions to show their profound and previously unimagined affinity.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Preamble 1
1. Celestina's Brood 7
2. The Life and Adventures of Cipion: Cervantes and the Picaresque 45
3. Poetry and Painting in Lope's El castigo sin venganza 66
4. Caledron's La vida es sueno: Mixed-(Up) Monsters 81
5. Threats in Caledron: La vida es sueno 1:303-8 114
6. Reflections on the Espejo de paciencia 128
7. Poetics and Modernity in Juan de Espinosa Medrano, Known as Lunarejo 149
8. Socrates Among the Weeds: Blacks and History in Carpentier's El siglo de las luces 170
9. Guillen as Baroque: Meaning in Motivos de son 194
10. Plain Song: Sarduy's Cobra 212
Notes 239
Index 273
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