Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction: The Baroque as a Problem of Thought 1
5. 1. Of Baroque Holes and Baroque Folds 11
6. 2. How to Build a Baroque House (Cervantes, Master Architect) 26
7. 3. The Theater of Truth 39
8. 4. The Opacity of Language and the Transparency of Being: On Góngora’s Poetics 56
9. 5. The Corporeal Image and the New World Baroque 69
10. 6. The Dream Life of Calderón and Borges 85
11. 7. The World Well Dressed: The Later Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar 107
12. Epilogue: A New Distinction 127
13. Notes 131
14. Works Cited 149
15. Index 163