The spectacular city, Mexico, and colonial Hispanic literary culture /

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Stephanie Merrim offers a dynamic interdisciplinary approach to colonial Hispanic writing based on the spectacular city, a model that encompasses three driving forces of New World literary culture: cities, festivals, and wonder. [This book] tracks the three spectacular forces from the sixteenth to t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Merrim, Stephanie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
Subjects:
1500-1699
Festivals > Mexico > Mexico City > History > 16th century.
Festivals > Mexico > Mexico City > History > 17th century.
HISTORY.
Festivals.
Intellectual life.
Literature.
Manners and customs.
Literatur
Mexiko > Stadt, Motiv
Mexico City (Mexico) > Social life and customs > 16th century.
Mexico City (Mexico) > Social life and customs > 17th century.
Mexico City (Mexico) > Intellectual life > 16th century.
Mexico City (Mexico) > Intellectual life > 17th century.
Mexico City (Mexico) > In literature.
Mexico > Mexico City.
Mexiko
Mexiko (Stadt, Motiv)
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Agile platforms of the spectacular city : the new world and the old
  • Order and concert
  • Balbuena's "La grandeza mexicana" and the advent of the spectacular city
  • Balbuena's spectacular city and the Creole cause
  • Engaging plurality : Baroque plenitude and the spectacular city in Mexico
  • "To know the all" : the spectacular esoteric city in Mexico
  • Babel : wild work of the new world Baroque
  • Appendix. Chronology of principal works.

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