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