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Cognitive approaches to early modern Spanish literature

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Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing.

Title Cognitive approaches to early modern Spanish literature / edited by Isabel Jaén and Julien Jacques Simon.
Edition First edition.
Publisher New York, NY : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2016
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
English
Content Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction
Isabel Jaén and Julien J. Simon
SECTION I An Overview of Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature
1. Contextualizing Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature
Julien J. Simon
SECTION II The Creation of Self
2. Embodied Cognition and Autopoiesis in Don Quixote
Howard Mancing
3. Why Autopoiesis and Memory Matter to Cervantes, Don Quixote, and the Humanities
Catherine Connor-Swietlicki
4. The Janus Hypothesis in Don Quixote: Memory and Imagination in Cervantes
Julia Domínguez
SECTION III Embodied Cognition and Performance5. Cognitive Theatricality: Jongleuresque Imagination on the Early Spanish Stage
Bruce R. Burningham
6. A Mindful Audience: Embodied Spectatorship in Early Modern Madrid
Elizabeth M. Cruz Petersen
SECTION IV Perceiving and Understanding Others
7. Wearing Gender on One's Sleeve: Cross-Dressing in Ángela de Azevedo's El muerto disimulado
Judith G. Caballero
8. Don Quixote's Response to Fiction in Maese Pedro's Puppet Show: Madman or Transported Reader?
Domingo Ródenas de Moya and José Valenzuela
9. Theory of Mind in Early Modern Spanish Manuals of Courtly ConductRyan Schmitz
SECTION V Feeling and Ethics
10. Embodiment and Empathy in Early Modern Drama: The Case of Cervantes' El trato de Argel
Cory A. Reed
11. The Role of Empathy in Reading, Interpreting, and Teaching Las Casas' Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias
Barbara Simerka
Afterword: Teaching Early Modern Spanish Literature with a Cognitive Approach
Isabel Jaén
Index
Series Cognition and Poetics
Extent 1 online resource (253 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997011079212105171
MARC RECORDS

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