Images in mind: lovesickness, spanish sentimental fiction and "Don Quijote"
Editorial THE UNIV. OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
Espanya peninsular
- Editorial THE UNIV. OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
- ISBN13 9780807892787
- ISBN10 0807892785
- Tipus LLIBRE
- Pàgines 267
- Col.lecció North Carolina studies in the romance languages and Literatures #274
- Any Edició 2002
- Idioma Anglès
- Encuadernació Rústica
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Segle D'orImages in mind: lovesickness, spanish sentimental fiction and "Don Quijote"
Editorial THE UNIV. OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
Espanya peninsular
Detalls del llibre
Fifteenth-century Spanish sentimental fiction can be described as a palimpsest, a dense web of entangled, faded readings and a challenge to the reader. While the parameters of writing sentimental fiction and its textuality have been explored with great success, its readers and how they approached these works have been largely neglected.
Based on a reconstruction of the medical notion of love-as-sickness (amor heroes), premodern reading habits, and interpretive strategies, this book approaches canonical works of sentimental romance from the perspective of a medical-sensitive reader. An analysis of Don Quijote silhouetted against the subtext of sentimental romance reveals how faculty psychology and lovesickness resonate in Golden Age literature.