Foreword: Historicizing cognitive approaches to Cervantes / Howard Mancing -- Introduction: A cognitive-historicist approach to Cervantes's work / Isabel Jaén and Julien J. Simon -- Views of the mind in early modern Spain. Spanish brain science and philosophy of mind in the time of Cervantes : three seminal thinkers / Antonio Martín Araguz -- Feeling, thinking, and remembering in humans and brutes. Emotion and human development in Cervantes's Don Quijote : the case of Sancho Panza / Isabel Jaén -- Aging, emotion, and cognition : El viejo zeloso and early modern thought / Elena Carrera -- Human thinking about thinking animals in the early modern Spanish and Spanish American world / Steven Wagschal -- Wit, imagination, and the goat : the untrodden paths of literary creation in Cervantes's Don Quijote and Huarte's Examen de ingenios / Christine Orobitg -- Cervantes and the mother of the muses : views of memory in early modern Spain / Julia Domínguez -- Altered minds : causes, effects, and remedies. Melancholic consciousness : Cervantes's contribution to early modern views of melancholy and the emergence of the fictional mind / Isabel Jaén and Julien J. Simon -- Mind-altering agents in Cervantes's work : regarding his sources on pharmacology / Francisco López-Muñoz and Cecilio Álamo -- Don Quijote and Cervantes's knowledge of neurological disorders / José-Alberto Palma, Fermín Palma, and Julien J. Simon.
Summary:
"This book explores the work of Cervantes in relation to the ideas about the mind that circulated in early modern Europe and were propelled by thinkers such as Juan Luis Vives, Juan Huarte de San Juan, Oliva Sabuco, Andrés Laguna, Andrés Velásquez, Marsilio Ficino, Gómez Pereira, and others"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture
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