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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.

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction. Road Map
  • Chapter 1. Agile Platforms of the Spectacular City: The New World and the Old
  • Chapter 2. Order and Concert
  • Chapter 3. Balbuena's "La grandeza mexicana" and the Advent of the Spectacular City
  • Chapter 4. Balbuena's Spectacular City and the Creole Cause
  • Chapter 5. Engaging Plurality: Baroque Plenitude and the Spectacular City in Mexico
  • Chapter 6. "To Know the All": The Spectacular Esoteric City in Mexico
  • Chapter 7. Babel: Wild Work of the New World Baroque
  • Appendix. Chronology of Principal Works
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

The Spectacular City Mexico and Colonial Hispanic

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/11/2010
      ISBN13: 9780292737464, 978-0292737464
      ISBN10: 0292737467
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Introduction. Road Map
      • Chapter 1. Agile Platforms of the Spectacular City: The New World and the Old
      • Chapter 2. Order and Concert
      • Chapter 3. Balbuena's "La grandeza mexicana" and the Advent of the Spectacular City
      • Chapter 4. Balbuena's Spectacular City and the Creole Cause
      • Chapter 5. Engaging Plurality: Baroque Plenitude and the Spectacular City in Mexico
      • Chapter 6. "To Know the All": The Spectacular Esoteric City in Mexico
      • Chapter 7. Babel: Wild Work of the New World Baroque
      • Appendix. Chronology of Principal Works
      • Notes
      • Works Cited
      • Index

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