Cervantes’ Architectures : : The Dangers Outside /

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

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...

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

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