Quixotic Memories : : Cervantes and Memory in Early Modern Spain / / Julia Dominguez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Dominguez, Julia,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Iberic
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.) :; 6 b&w illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Obsessions with Remembering --; 1 The Anatomy of Early Modern Memory --; 2 Mental Libraries: The Places of Memory --; 3 Ut Pictura Memoria: The Mnemonic Power of Images --; 4 Information Overload: Stocking Memory in the Age of Cervantes --; 5 Disputes over Memory: Sancho and the Artful Manipulation of Memory --; Epilogue: Lethe and the Laws of Oblivion: Sites of Forgetting in Don Quixote --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487543914; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993752; 9783110993738; 9783110767155
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487543914
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Julia Dominguez.

The work of Miguel de Cervantes – one of the most influential writers in early modern Europe – is a reflection of the rich culture of memory in which it was created. More than a theme, memory is a system of understanding in Cervantes’ world, resulting from the major social, religious, and economic changes that epitomized Renaissance humanist culture and that informed the transition to modernity. Quixotic Memories offers insight into the plurality and complexity of memory and demonstrates how it plays an exceptionally critical role in Cervantes’ Don Quixote. It acknowledges Cervantes’ transition into modernity as he engaged with theories of memory that were developed in classical antiquity and adapted to the specific circumstances of his own time. Julia Dominguez explores the many spaces that memory created for itself in early modern Spain, particularly in the fields of philosophy, medicine, rhetoric, mnemotechnics, the visual arts, and pedagogy. Engaging with primary and archival sources, Quixotic Memories provides a new reading of Cervantes’ famous novel by tracing the socio-historical and cultural prominence of memory throughout the author’s lifetime.