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Quixotic Memories
Cervantes and Memory in Early Modern Spain
Julia Dominguez (Author)
9781487543921
Hardback, published 29 April 2022
276 pages
23.1 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.58 kg
"With her masterful analysis of how Cervantes treats memory throughout Don Quixote, Domínguez has accomplished something quite rare in the world of Cervantine studies, a field populated by new books every month: writing a book that will be remembered."
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’s 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’s Don Quixote. It acknowledges Cervantes’s 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 Domínguez 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’s famous novel by tracing the socio-historical and cultural prominence of memory throughout the author’s lifetime.
Introduction 1. The Anatomy of Early Modern Memory Cervantes and the Early Modern Mind 2. Mental Libraries: The Places of Memory Imaginary Libraries 3. Ut Pictura Memoria: The Mnemonic Power of Images Visual Expressions of Mnemonic Culture in the Age of Cervantes 4. Information Overload: Stocking Memory in the Age of Cervantes The Anxiety of the "Labyrinths of Letters" 5. Disputes over Memory: Sancho and the Artful Manipulation of Memory "O Sancho miente o Sancho sueña" Epilogue
Obsessions with Remembering: The Culture of Memory in Early Modern Spain
The Topography of the Early Modern Brain
Memory and Recollection
Don Quixote’s Memory
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
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
Pedagogy, Mnemonics, and the Limits of Humanist Education
The Cousin: Student and Humanist
External Memories
The Mimetic Memory of the Cousin
"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
Lethe and the Laws of Oblivion: Sites of Forgetting in Don Quixote