Cover
Title Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
I. Poiesis on the Threshold of Modernity
1. Poiesis and Modernity at the Turn of the Spanish Sixteenth Century: Luis Alfonso de Carvallo and the Cisne de Apolo (1602)
2. "Orphic Fictions": Poesia and Poiesis in Cervantes
3. Spiders and Flies: Imagining "The World" in Early Modern European Natural Philosophy
4. Encyclopedism, Poiesis, and Modernity
5. From the Bibliotheca to the Garden and the Graveyard: Origins of the Poiesis of the Fantastic in Late Sixteenth-Century Miscellanea
II. Case Studies: Poesia and Poiesis
6. Writing Religion: Sacromonte and the Literary Conventions of Orthodoxy
7. Scrutinizing Early Modern Warfare in Latin Hexameters: The Austrias Carmen of Joannes Latinus (Juan Latino)
8. Ribera's Sagradas poesias as Poiesis of Modernity in Colonial Potosi
III. English and European Contexts
9. "A Super-Political Concernment": Evolution and Revolution of Inward Light from Juan de Valdes to John Locke
10. Failed New World Epics in Baroque Italy
11. How to Reconquer Poiesis? Florian's Gonzalve de Cordoue, ou Grenade reconquise (1791)
12. The Opacity of Language and the Transparency of Being: On Gongora's Poetics
13. Sense and Equivalence in Gongora and the Spanish Mystics: A Credit Crisis
Afterword
Contributors
Index