<p>Este libro explora la atracci&oacute;n de los &quot;Siglos de oro&quot; por lo monstruoso. Varios trabajos recientes ya han arrojado luz sobre la abundante representaci&oacute;n de cuerpos excesivos que afloran en los siglos XVI y XVI&nbsp; y que parecen acaso reflejar el lenguaje inflado y deformado a trav&eacute;s del cual son descritos en la literatura de la &eacute;poca. Sin obviar sus logros el libro intenta ir m&aacute;s all&aacute; para mostrar que lo m&aacute;s sorprendente de la monstruosidad en este periodo no es la manera en que representa un exceso barroco sino la forma en que el exceso mismo est&aacute; estructurado en una imagen dual. Muchos de estos &quot;monstruos&quot; (hermafroditas bic&eacute;falos o lic&aacute;ntropos) ostentan un dise&ntilde;o geminado que permanece de hecho inexplicado. &iquest;Qu&eacute; explica tal anomal&iacute;a? &iquest;C&oacute;mo contribuir&aacute; esta excepci&oacute;n a modelar la imagen misma de lo normal? &iquest;Qu&eacute; tiene que ver con la configuraci&oacute;n del nuevo cuerpo pol&iacute;tico a trav&eacute;s del cual las relaciones sociales iban a ser imaginadas a partir de entonces en el mundo occidental?</p><p>V&iacute;ctor M. Pueyo es profesor titular en el Departamento de Espa&ntilde;ol y Portugu&eacute;s de Temple University.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;</p><p>This is a book about the obsession of the Spanish &quot;Golden Age&quot; with the monstrous. Recent research has begun to cast light upon the abundant representation of excessive bodies that mirrors the swelled and deformed language through which they are depicted in early modern literature. Without disregarding its representational approach the book goes beyond this body of research by arguing that the most surprising element about monstrosity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is not the way it represents Baroque excess but the way excess itself is structured into a dual image. Most of these &quot;monsters&quot; (hermaphrodites lycanthropes two-headed creatures) have a geminated form that remains indeed largely unaccounted. What explains such an anomaly? How will it shape the rule? What does it have to do with the configuration of the new body politic through which social relations were going to be imagined in the Western World?</p><p>V&iacute;ctor Pueyo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Temple University.</p>
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