The Baroque Narrative of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora: A New World Paradise (Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature, Series Number 9) - Hardcover

Ross, Kathleen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521451132 ISBN 13: 9780521451130

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Carlos de SigÜenza y Góngora, one of seventeenth-century Mexico's best-known intellectuals, was a writer of fascinating and complex narratives that exemplarize the heterogeneous nature of colonial Spanish American prose. This book is the first critical study to place both the writer and his narrative within the phenomenon of the Barroco de Indias, or the Spanish-American baroque. Approaching SigÜenza as a criollo historian preoccupied with the placement of the New World within a universal context, Professor Ross develops a theoretical framework within which his texts can be read and understood today. Professor Ross incorporates into her examination new critical trends, such as the use of narrative theory, the new historiography, and feminist criticism.

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Book Description:

This 1993 book, Professor Ross places both Sigüenza and his narrative within the phenomenon of the barroco de Indias (Spanish American baroque). She incorporates into her examination of Sigüenza methods of critical analysis in the study of colonial Spanish-American literature, which focuses on narrative theory, the historiography, and feminist criticism.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0521451132
• ISBN 13: 9780521451130
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232