Beyond Sight : : Engaging the Senses in Iberian Literatures and Cultures, 1200–1750 /

Beyond Sight : : Engaging the Senses in Iberian Literatures and Cultures, 1200–1750 / / ed. by Steven Wagschal, Ryan D. Giles.

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Beyond Sight, edited by Ryan D. Giles and Steven Wagschal, explores the ways in which Iberian writers crafted images of both Old and New Worlds using the non-visual senses (hearing, smell, taste, and touch). The contributors argue that the uses of these senses are central to understanding Iberian au...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ACUP Complete eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Armas, Frederick A. De,
Berlin, Henry,
Blackmore, Josiah,
Domínguez, Julia,
Francomano, Emily C.,
Fritz, Robert K.,
Ganelin, Charles Victor,
Gerli, E. Michael,
Giles, Ryan D.,
Nadeau, Carolyn A.,
Rodríguez-Pereira, Vícto,
Santo-Tomás, Enrique García,
Voigt, Lisa,
Wagschal, Steven,
HerausgeberIn:
Giles, Ryan D. ,
Wagschal, Steven,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Toronto Iberic
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 22 b&w illustrations, 4 b&w tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Sensing Religion
  • 1. The Breath of Lazarus in the Mocedades de Rodrigo
  • 2. Sabrosa olor : The Role of Olfaction and Smells in Berceo’s Milagros de Nuestra Señora
  • Part Two: Cognition and the Senses
  • 3. The Internal Senses in Don Quixote and the Anatomy of Memory
  • 4. Taste, Cognition, and Redemption in Guzmán de Alfarache
  • 5. The Aesthetics of Disgust in Miguel de Cervantes and María de Zayas
  • Part Three: Perception
  • 6. Sight, Sound, Scent, and Sense: Reading the Cancionero de Palacio
  • 7. Treating Sensory Ailments in Early Modern Domestic Literature
  • 8. Cervantes’s Exemplary Sensorium, or the Skinny on La española inglesa
  • Part Four: Sensing Empire
  • 9. The Senses of Empire and the Scents of Babylon in the Libro de Alexandre
  • 10. Portuguese Scenes of the Senses, Medieval and Early Modern
  • 11. Eucharistic Thought and Imperial Longing in Portugal from Amadeus da Silva’s Apocalypsis Nova (1502) to António Vieira’s História do Futuro (1663–1667)
  • 12. Festive Soundscapes in Colonial Potosí and Minas Gerais
  • Part Five: Sensing the Urban
  • 13. Celestial Visions and Demonic Touch: García’s Inventions in La verdad sospechosa
  • 14. Motherhood Interrupted: Sensing Birth in Early Modern Spanish Literature
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • TORONTO IBERIC

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