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"""From looming towers to imagined castles to actual prisons, Cervantes' Architectures explores the diverse structures that abound in La Galatea, Don Quixote, and Persiles y Sigismunda. De Armas draws on Vitruvius' treatise on architecture, Renaissance artworks, the life of Cervantes, and modern theories of space and place to offer us new and fascinating ways to consider the multitudinous architectures constructed in Cervantine prose.""--William Worden, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Alabama ""Cervantes' Architectures opens up a critical field never explored before, revealing how architectural space in Cervantes is dynamically integral to the poetics of his oeuvre. In this groundbreaking study, de Armas brings together his unsurpassed sensibility for art and ekphrasis and a deeply intuitive sense of the meaning of inhabitable places, imaginary and real, grandiose and humble, that avows the profound symbiosis between architecture and being human in Cervantes' literary fiction.""--Mercedes Alcal�-Gal�n, Professor of Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and President of the Cervantes Society of America ""Since he has started writing novels himself, de Armas' scholarship has become even more creative. It takes a novelist to truly understand the inner workings of a novelist's mind. This book's brilliance is matched only by its timeliness. De Armas has taken the subjective experience of being shut in during the pandemic and transformed it into a fantastic mental tour of the buildings dotting the map of Cervantes' architectural landscape.""--Hilaire Kallendorf, Professor of Hispanic and Religious Studies, Texas A&M University ""Cervantes' ellipsis and transformations of architecture urge us to revisit Baroque fictions of Spain as a necessary task to survive the uncertainties of climate change, the fear of the pandemic, and the claustrophobic months and years in our dwellings.""--Juan Pablo Gil-Osle, Professor of Spanish, Arizona State University"

Cervantes' Architectures opens up a critical field never explored before, revealing how architectural space in Cervantes is dynamically integral to the poetics of his oeuvre. In this groundbreaking study, de Armas brings together his unsurpassed sensibility for art and ekphrasis and a deeply intuitive sense of the meaning of inhabitable places, imaginary and real, grandiose and humble, that avows the profound symbiosis between architecture and being human in Cervantes' literary fiction. - Mercedes Alcala-Galan, Professor of Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and President of the Cervantes Society of America Cervantes' ellipsis and transformations of architecture urge us to revisit Baroque fictions of Spain as a necessary task to survive the uncertainties of climate change, the fear of the pandemic, and the claustrophobic months and years in our dwellings. - Juan Pablo Gil-Osle, Professor of Spanish, Arizona State University From looming towers to imagined castles to actual prisons, Cervantes' Architectures explores the diverse structures that abound in La Galatea, Don Quixote, and Persiles y Sigismunda. De Armas draws on Vitruvius' treatise on architecture, Renaissance artworks, the life of Cervantes, and modern theories of space and place to offer us new and fascinating ways to consider the multitudinous architectures constructed in Cervantine prose. - William Worden, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Alabama Since he has started writing novels himself, de Armas' scholarship has become even more creative. It takes a novelist to truly understand the inner workings of a novelist's mind. This book's brilliance is matched only by its timeliness. De Armas has taken the subjective experience of being shut in during the pandemic and transformed it into a fantastic mental tour of the buildings dotting the map of Cervantes' architectural landscape. - Hilaire Kallendorf, Professor of Hispanic and Religious Studies, Texas A&M University

Cervantes' Architectures opens up a critical field never explored before, revealing how architectural space in Cervantes is dynamically integral to the poetics of his oeuvre. In this groundbreaking study, de Armas brings together his unsurpassed sensibility for art and ekphrasis and a deeply intuitive sense of the meaning of inhabitable places, imaginary and real, grandiose and humble, that avows the profound symbiosis between architecture and being human in Cervantes' literary fiction. - Mercedes Alcalá-Galán, Professor of Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and President of the Cervantes Society of America Cervantes' ellipsis and transformations of architecture urge us to revisit Baroque fictions of Spain as a necessary task to survive the uncertainties of climate change, the fear of the pandemic, and the claustrophobic months and years in our dwellings. - Juan Pablo Gil-Osle, Professor of Spanish, Arizona State University From looming towers to imagined castles to actual prisons, Cervantes' Architectures explores the diverse structures that abound in La Galatea, Don Quixote, and Persiles y Sigismunda. De Armas draws on Vitruvius' treatise on architecture, Renaissance artworks, the life of Cervantes, and modern theories of space and place to offer us new and fascinating ways to consider the multitudinous architectures constructed in Cervantine prose. - William Worden, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Alabama Since he has started writing novels himself, de Armas' scholarship has become even more creative. It takes a novelist to truly understand the inner workings of a novelist's mind. This book's brilliance is matched only by its timeliness. De Armas has taken the subjective experience of being shut in during the pandemic and transformed it into a fantastic mental tour of the buildings dotting the map of Cervantes' architectural landscape. - Hilaire Kallendorf, Professor of Hispanic and Religious Studies, Texas A&M University

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Frederick A. de Armas is the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.

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