Cervantes’ Architectures : : The Dangers Outside / / Frederick A. de Armas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: de Armas, Frederick A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Iberic
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 19 b&w illustrations

Cervantes’ Architectures is the first book dedicated to architecture in Cervantes’ prose fiction. At a time when a pandemic is sweeping the world, this book reflects on the danger outside by concentrating on the role of enclosed structures as places where humans may feel safe, or as sites of beauty and harmony that provide solace. At the same time, a number of the architectures in Cervantes trigger dread and claustrophobia as they display a kind of shapelessness and a haunting aura that blends with the narrative. This volume invites readers to discover hundreds of edifices that Cervantes built with the pen. Their variety is astounding. The narrators and characters in these novels tell of castles, fortifications, inns, mills, prisons, palaces, towers, and villas which appear in their routes or in their conversations, and which welcome them, amaze them, or entrap them. Cervantes may describe actual buildings such as the Pantheon in Rome, or he may imagine structures that metamorphose before our eyes, as we come to view one architecture within another, and within another, creating an abyss of space. They deeply affect the characters as they feel enclosed, liberated, or suspended or as they look upon such structures with dread, relief, or admiration. Cervantes' Architectures sheds light on how places and spaces are perceived through words and how impossible structures find support, paradoxically, in the literary architecture of the work.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Breaking Eurithmia -- 2 Temples and Tombs: La Galatea -- Introduction -- Virgil and Vitruvius -- Primavera’s Dissonance -- Theatre -- Hermitage -- Temple -- Tombs -- 3 Unstable Architectures: Don Quixote, Part 1 -- Introduction -- A Mutable Structure -- A Study in Melancholy -- The Imperilled Home -- Windmills -- Occupancy at the Inn -- Lucretia’s Castle -- Prison/Castle -- 4 Windows: Don Quixote, Part 1 -- Introduction -- Rear Window -- The Ghosts of Place -- Of Windows and Fortresses -- Facing Windows -- Window as Teichoskopia -- 5 Grotesque: Vying with Vitruvius; Don Quixote, Part 2 -- Introduction -- On the Way to Dulcinea’s Palace -- The Pantheon -- Tower -- Hell-Mouth -- Grotesque Anatomy -- Structures of Silence -- 6 Treacherous Architectures: Don Quixote, Part 2 -- Introduction -- Crystal -- Gold and Alabaster -- Torture Chamber -- Barcelona -- 7 A Windowless North: Persiles y Sigismunda, Books 1 and 2 -- Introduction -- The Prison -- A Moment’s Place -- Inns and Ships -- A Spectral Palace -- A Witching Space -- 8 Structures of Flight: Persiles y Sigismunda, Book 3 -- Introduction -- Cityscape as Ellipse and Ellipsis -- Lienzos -- Sacred Architectures -- The Veranzio Woman -- Hercules’/Domitian’s Tower -- 9 Roman Architectures: Persiles y Sigismunda, Book 4 -- Introduction -- A City of Relics -- An Invisible Villa -- A Home in Jewish Rome -- The Threatening Tower -- Hipólita’s Enclosed Loggia -- The Church Outside -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Toronto Iberic