Loyola's greater narrative
Subtitle: the architecture of the spiritual exercises in golden age and Enlightenment literature
By: Frédéric Conrod.
Series: American university studies ii : romance languages and literature,0740-9257 -- v. 229
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781433102493
Subjects: Ignatius, -- of Loyola, Saint, -- 1491-1556; Ignatius, -- of Loyola, Saint, -- 1491-1556 -- Influence; Spiritual exercises; Spiritual direction; Spiritual life -- Catholic Church; European literature -- History and criticism
Description: "Through complex interactions of different imaginative functions, Loyola's text is able to superpose a variety of simultaneous narrative levels. In order to reformulate the "greater narrative" (the Magisterium) of the Roman faith beyond what is revealed in Scripture, the Spiritual Exercises require their exercitant to become an active participant in this narrative through constant visual contact with "orders of corruption," that is, spaces in which virtue can be confronted with physical decay and sin."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Baroque orders of corruption; title: The spiritual exercises, or the formation of mental territories and orders of corruption; title: Totalitarian structures and orders of corruption; title: The formation of an image reservoir; title: Imitatio Christi and baroque inversions; title: Ego vobis romae propitius ero : diffusion of the spiritual exercises in Rome (1550-1650); title: The first mission of new apostle; title: an image reservoir in the multiple-layer urban fabric; title: Corresponding dynamics; title: Roman churches after the spiritual exercises; title: The mother church of Il Gesù and Sant Andrea al Quirinale; title: The Roma ignaziana; title: Transformation of the visual dynamics of the spiritual exercises in the late works of Miguel de Cervantes; title: Cervantes, corruption, the urban and the company; title: Don Quixote, an excessive projection in a greater narrative; title: Last pilgrimage : Cervantes representation of Rome in Persiles; title: Transforming the orders of corruption in El criticón : the case of Baltasar Gracián, a Jesuit preparing the way for the Enlightenment; title: Pre-Enlightenment coming out of the exercises; title: The exercise of decoding monstrosity; title: Contemplating eternal arts beyond the Roma ignaziana; title: The enigmatic parallel writing of El comulgatorio; title: From Loyolan imagination to Sadean Enlightenment : the parodying inversions of the spiritual exercises in the novels of the Marquis de Sade; title: Philosophical criticism of Loyolan system in Enlightenment; title: Sadean inversions; title: Collecting the tableaux in the cent vingt journées; title: Melting down the concept of spiritual directors; title: Forcing the exercitant in desiring the opposite; title: Revisiting the Roma ignaziana in Juliette.