Baroque horrors : roots of the fantastic in the age of curiosities /

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"Baroque Horrors turns the current cultural and political conversation from the familiar narrative patterns and self-justifying allegories of abjection to a dialogue on the history of our modern fears and their monstrous offspring. When life and death are severed from nature and history, "...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Castillo, David R., 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010]
Temas:
1500-1700
Spanish literature > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Baroque literature > History and criticism.
Horror in literature.
Fear > History.
Fear > Political aspects.
Littérature baroque > Histoire et critique.
Horreur dans la littérature.
Peur > Histoire.
Peur > Aspect politique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
HISTORY > General.
Baroque literature
Fear
Fear > Political aspects
Horror in literature
Spanish literature > Classical period
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a taste for the macabre in the age of curiosities
  • Miscellanea: the garden of curiosities and macabre theater
  • Sins of our fathers (and spouses): the preternatural in baroque exemplary tales
  • Zayas' bodyworks: protogothic moral pornography or a baroque trap for the gaze
  • Monsters from the deep: Lozano's La cueva de Hércules and the politics of horror.

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