Presence, Absence and Divine Vision: A Comparative Study of the Cantico espiritual and Rasa Lila Open Access
Hernández, Gloria Maité (2011)
Abstract
Abstract
Presence, Absence and Divine Vision: A Comparative Study of the
Cantico espiritual and Rasa Lila
By Gloria Maite Hernandez
This dissertation is a comparison of the Spanish sixteenth-century text and commentary of the Cantico espiritual by Juan de la Cruz with the Sanskrit text Rasa Lila (The dance of divine love), a poetical work derived from the Indian oral tradition between the ninth and the thirteenth centuries, along with Sridhara Svami's commentary. The central argument of this dissertation is that it is possible to read the Cantico espiritual and Rasa Lila along each other, even when they are not historically or otherwise related, and that this comparison illumines aspects of the texts that are not so obvious outside the comparative frame. Through a strong interdisciplinary dialogue, I reexamine traditional assumptions about contextual circumstances for Spanish Early Modern mystical literature. The notions of absence and presence of the divine introduce the dissertation in order to remind the reader that it is in the transitional space between one and the other where both texts indwell, and the impulse that moves from absent to presence and from presence to absence is precisely the desire to attain the divine vision.
Presence, Absence and Divine Vision: A Comparative Study of the
Cantico espiritual and Rasa Lila
By
Gloria Maite Hernandez
BFA Instituto Superior de Arte. Habana, Cuba
Adviser: Maria M. Carrion, PhD
A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the
James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies of Emory University
in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
2011
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: From Salamanca to Vrindavan...1
Chapter 1 Mysticism, Orientalism, and Comparison in the Field of
Spanish Literature: A Critical Review...15
Chapter 2 Post Orientalist Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Dialogue and
Methodology: The Texts and Their Contexts...62
Chapter 3 Presence, Absence, and Secret Meaning...123
Chapter 4 Seeing...184
Conclusion...257
Bibliography...279
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