...Seth Kimmel This essay argues that the effort to define and police the shifting boundaries of Christianity in early modern Spain produced a counter-intuitive peninsular logic of secularization. Hoping to stem the extension of ecclesiastical power over everyday cultural life, New Christians...

...-language American (U.S.) modernism. Jiménez's Diario de un poeta reciencasado ( Diary of a Newlywed Poet , 1917), written during and after his round-trip voyage between Spain and New York, is the basis for what the poet called his “rebirth” in Spanish and American poetry. In this hybrid semi-epic text, he...

... Milman Parry and Albert Lord early modern Spain His compelling criticisms of Durán notwithstanding, Menéndez Pidal’s own story of the romance also includes an encounter between the Castilian ballad tradition and the Arabophone world. In his view, which Menéndez Pidal shared both with his...

... of religion, literature, and secularism at distinct his- torical moments—ranging from early modern Spain to the nineteenth-century United States and interwar Germany and Palestine. They also chart how literature inflects the sensibilities, behaviors, and attitudes of readers. Spanning regions, lan...

... : Francis Carins , 1990 . Armistead Samuel . Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia , edited by Gerli E. M. . London : Routledge , 2002 . Barletta Vincent . Covert Gestures: Crypto-Islamic Literature as Cultural Practice in Early Modern Spain . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota...

... is a great quality” (“halló de ejecutorias un tesoro,/porque es gran calidad ser embustero Here ejecutorias recalls nobility trials and their outcomes, as well as, more broadly, fluid legal and social defini- tions of nobility in Latin America and Spain in the early modern period.8 The distinction...

... of Piracy. Emulating Spain in English Literature . Philadelphia : U of Pennsylvania P , 2013 . Print . ———. “Sketches of Spain: Early Modern England's ‘Orientalizing’ of Iberia.” Material and Symbolic Circulation between Spain and England, 1554–1604 . Ed. Cruz Anne J. . Aldershot : Ashgate...

..., Beckettian model (as demonstrated in the first half of the article), how then can it serve as a modernizing force within con- temporary Spain? I. Valente and Beckett: Residual Modernism That Valente’s poetics derive largely from modernism can hardly be disputed. His admiration for high modernist...

...,Baroque Sovereignty appears to revolve around the analysis of the life and writings of Sigüenza y Góngora —​and, by extension, the cultural and political agency of Creoles in New Spain during the early (post-conquest) colonial period. Yet it would be more correct to say that More demonstrates how...

... by a French composer who had never set foot in Spain. One of its early reviewers recognized the orientalist construction of modern Spain emerging from “ses origines judaïques, arabs, égyptiennes” ‘her Judaic, Arab, Egyptian origins’ (qtd. in Hutcheon 188). Indeed, Bizet’s Carmen represents a prime example...

...Salvador J. Fajardo Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History . By Rogers Gayle . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . 283 p. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 232 In either case, Baroque Sovereignty...

...Alex J. Novikoff Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain . By Kimmel Seth . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2015 . 239 p. Copyright © 2017 University of Oregon 2017 BOOK...

... and Aragon occupied Granada. This “reconquest” would be continued seamlessly as the “conquest” of America. The Iberian countries had already begun the fi rst Early Modernity in the fi f- teenth century. Spain, together with Portugal (which anticipated the Spanish undertaking by a century), would...

... more than his desire to place Spain at the center of European modernity, without any genuine regard for their culture, since he never learned Arabic and had no kind words to spare for Islam or its prophet ( Dainotto 130–31 ). That may well be the case, but for my purposes the important thing...

..., the legal Government and the People of Republican Spain? Are you for, or against, Franco and Fascism?” The Left Review in London published the questionnaire, a collaboration between Cunard and an international group of anti-fascist writers including Neruda, Louis Aragon, Auden, José Bergamín, Ramón Sender...

... to a comparative model that foregrounds languages and literary histories. University of Oregon 2009 Adams, James Truslow. The Epic of America . Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1931 . Aiton, Arthur Scott. Antonio de Mendoza: First Viceroy of New Spain . Durham: Duke UP, 1927 . Anzaldúa...

... LITERATURE / 234 and Spain formed a generation with comparable poetics and, not infrequently, related ide- ologies. Stephen Spender in particular responded to the proposal. His trip to Valencia and participation in the 1937 Congress of Writers for the Defense of Culture planted the seeds of his...

... a global artistic conversation on modernity. . . . Spain’s modernization drive disproportionately affected Catalonia and representations of this new wealth could serve various ends. It could distinguish Catalonia as a region from the backward areas of Spain; it could underscore nationalist discourses...

... Lara , 1840–52 . Print . Almuiña Fernández Celso Domínguez Ramón García . Proceso inquisitorial a un periodista . Valladolid, Spain : Caja de Ahorros Provincial de Valladolid , 1983 . Print . Antología del centenario: Estudio documentado de la literatura mexicana durante el...

... Blanc: Between Romance and Epic.” Letters and Society in Fifteenth- Century Spain: Studies Presented to P.E. Russell on His Eightieth Birthday. Ed. Alan Deyermond and Jeremy Lawrance. Llangrannog, Wales: The Dolphin Book Company, 1993. 59-68. 53. “Comparative Literature, CL, and I...