Escape from the prison of love : caloric identities and writing subjects in fifteenth-century Spain / Robert Folger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Folger, Robert.

Series:

North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 292.

North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish fiction--To 1500--History and criticism.

Spanish fiction.

Spanish fiction--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

San Pedro, Diego de, active 1500. Cárcel de amor.

Courtly love in literature.

Subjectivity in literature.

Self in literature.

Gender identity in literature.

Physical Description:

190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, U.N.C. Dept. of Romance Languages : Distributed by University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Contents:

1 Introduction 13

2 The Premodern Self 22

2.1 Subjectivity 27

2.2 Faculty Psychology and the fold of the Self 42

2.3 Amor Hereos and the Constitution of the Subject 62

2.4 One Sex, Much (Gender) Trouble 71

2.4.1 Caloric identities 71

2.4.2 Juan de Flores and gender anxiety 92

2.4.3 Juan Huarte de San Juan's Examen de ingenios para las ciencias: a naturalist approach to the problem of gender 104

3 Cr̀cel De Amor: L'Écriture De Soi 112

3.1 From Performance to Identification 112

3.2 El Auctor and his Forebears in St̀ira De Infelice E Felice Vida and Siervo Libre De Amor 132.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807892961

0807892963

OCLC:

310097073