Cervantes and the early modern mind / edited by Isabel Jaén and Julien Jacques Simon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jaén, Isabel, 1970- editor.

Simon, Julien Jacques, 1974- editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Psychology and literature.

Cognition in literature.

Philosophy of mind in literature.

Cognition and culture--Spain--History--16th century.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.

Cognition and culture.

Spain.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Essays.

History.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xvi, 222 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Summary:

"This book explores the work of Cervantes in relation to the ideas about the mind that circulated in early modern Europe and were propelled by thinkers such as Juan Luis Vives, Juan Huarte de San Juan, Oliva Sabuco, Andrés Laguna, Andrés Velásquez, Marsilio Ficino, Gómez Pereira, and others"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: SECTION I Views of the Mind in Early Modern Spain

1. Spanish Brain Science and Philosophy of Mind in the Time of Cervantes: Three Seminal Thinkers / Antonio Martin Araguz

SECTION II Feeling, Thinking, and Remembering in Humans and Brutes

2. Emotion and Human Development in Cervantes's Don Quijote: The Case of Sancho Panza / Isabel Jaen

3. Aging, Emotion, and Cognition: El viejo zeloso and Early Modern Thought / Elena Carrera

4. Human Thinking about Thinking Animals in the Early Modern Spanish and Spanish American World / Steven Wagschal

5. Wit, Imagination, and the Goat: The Untrodden Paths of Literary Creation in Cervantes's Don Quijote and Huarte's Examen de ingenios / Christine Orobitg

6. Cervantes and the Mother of the Muses: Views of Memory in Early Modern Spain / Julia Dominguez

SECTION III Altered Minds: Causes, Effects, and Remedies

7. Melancholic Consciousness: Cervantes's Contribution to Early Modern Views of Melancholy and the Emergence of the Fictional Mind / Julien Jacques Simon

8. Mind-Altering Agents in Cervantes's Work: Regarding His Sources on Pharmacology / Cecilio Alamo

9. Don Quijote and Cervantes's Knowledge of Neurological Disorders / Julien Jacques Simon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780415785471

0415785472

9781032058542

1032058544

OCLC:

1256592187

Publisher Number:

99990763320