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Author:   Julia Dominguez
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9781487543921

ISBN 10:   1487543921
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   29 April 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Obsessions with Remembering: The Culture of Memory in Early Modern Spain 1. The Anatomy of Early Modern Memory Cervantes and the Early Modern Mind The Topography of the Early Modern Brain Memory and Recollection Don Quixote’s Memory 2. Mental Libraries: The Places of Memory Imaginary Libraries Cervantes and Artificial Memory The Art of Memory and Its Tradition The Art of Memory in the Time of Cervantes Sierra Morena: The Vast Territories of Memory 3. Ut Pictura Memoria: The Mnemonic Power of Images Visual Expressions of Mnemonic Culture in the Age of Cervantes Cervantine Mnemonic Inflections The Mnemonic Power of Images: The Imago Agente in Don Quixote Affectio and the Corporeality of the Phantasmata The Circulation of Images in Cultural Artefacts 4. Information Overload: Stocking Memory in the Age of Cervantes The Anxiety of the “Labyrinths of Letters” Pedagogy, Mnemonics, and the Limits of Humanist Education The Cousin: Student and Humanist External Memories The Mimetic Memory of the Cousin 5. Disputes over Memory: Sancho and the Artful Manipulation of Memory “O Sancho miente o Sancho sueña” “A fe que no os falta memoria cuando vos queréis tenerla”: Sancho’s Selective Memory “Como ya pasó, no es” The Story of Torralba and the Performative Dimension of Memory “Alta y sobajada señora…” The False Memory Embedded in Imagination Epilogue Lethe and the Laws of Oblivion: Sites of Forgetting in Don Quixote

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Quixotic Memories is a truly groundbreaking volume that will shape future research. Julia Dominguez establishes from the very start the importance of memory for any reading of Don Quixote. Memory, she argues, relates to personal experience, social practice, and identity formation. Much more than that, it serves to swerve from the past to modernity. Learned and ingenious, the volume turns with ease from Plato's innate knowledge to memory overload and from nostalgia for the past to anxieties over recollection. A fascinating read. - Frederick A. de Armas, Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago An exceptional amount of research has gone into this beautifully crafted study. The result is an in-depth survey of the role of memory in Don Quixote and in the broader framework of the early modern period. A brief analysis of forgetfulness offers a superb complement. The volume provides much information, many lessons, and considerable food for thought. - Edward H. Friedman, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor in the Humanities (Emeritus), Vanderbilt University Julia Dominguez's Quixotic Memories demonstrates that prevailing concepts and concerns about memory and forgetting are actually inscribed into Cervantes's Don Quixote and therefore are foundational to the Western novel as a literary genre. Dominguez makes readers aware of how important the theme of memory is in the cultural imaginary of the time and how rich the literature and discussion about this theme was in Spain. The voluminous scholarship, elegant prose, and masterful use of cognitive theory will make this book highly influential while offering readers a valuable way to get at the heart of this great masterpiece. - Marsha S. Collins, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Julia Dominguez is a professor of Spanish at Iowa State University.

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