[Comedias] New Book -- Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature

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Dear colleagues,

Isabel Jaén and I are happy to announce in this forum the recent publication of our new book, Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature (see description below). We would be very grateful if you considered ordering a copy of the book for your institution’s library. It is available in hardback and as e-book. For more information, please visit the Oxford University Press website:
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Many thanks and Happy New Year!
Isabel and Julien

PS: If you’re attending the MLA this year, you can take a look at it at the Oxford UP booth.

Description of the book
Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology to explore human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It features the leading voices in the field, discussing the main themes that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the cognitive literary studies research that has been taking place within early modern Spanish studies over the last fifteen years. Next, it traces the creation of self in the context of the novel, focusing on Cervantes’s Don Quixote in relation to the notions of embodiment and autopoiesis as well as the faculties of memory and imagination as understood in early modernity. It continues to explore the concept of embodiment, delving into the mechanics of the interaction between actors and audience in both the jongleuresque and the comedia traditions. Centering on cognitive theories of perception, the psychology of immersion in fictional worlds, and early modern and modern-day notions of intentionality, it discusses the role of perceiving and understanding others in performance, Don Quixote, and courtly conduct manuals. The final section focuses on the affective dimension of audience-performer interactions in the theatrical space of the Spanish corrales and how emotion and empathy can inform new approaches to presenting Las Casas’s work in the literature classroom. The volume closes with an afterword offering strategies to design a course on mind and literature in early modernity.

Table of Contents
Introduction -- Isabel Jaén and Julien J. Simon
Section I - An Overview of Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature
1. Contextualizing Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature -- Julien J. Simon
Section II - The Creation of Self
2. Embodied Cognition and Autopoiesis in Don Quixote -- Howard Mancing
3. Why Autopoiesis and Memory Matter to Cervantes, Don Quixote, and the Humanities -- Catherine Connor-Swietlicki
4. The Janus Hypothesis in Don Quixote: Memory and Imagination in Cervantes -- Julia Domínguez
Section III - Embodied Cognition and Performance
5. Cognitive Theatricality: Jongleuresque Imagination on the Early Spanish Stage -- Bruce Burningham
6. A Mindful Audience: Embodied Spectatorship in Early Modern Madrid -- Elizabeth M. Cruz Petersen
Section IV - Perceiving and Understanding Others
7. Wearing Gender on One’s Sleeve: Cross-dressing in Ángela de Azevedo’s El muerto disimulado -- Judith Caballero
8. Don Quixote’s Response to Fiction in Maese Pedro’s Puppet Show: Madman or Transported Reader? Domingo Ródenas de Moya and José Valenzuela
9. Theory of Mind in Early Modern Spanish Manuals of Courtly Conduct -- Ryan Schmitz
Section V - Feeling and Ethics
10. Embodiment and Empathy in Early Modern Drama: The Case of Cervantes’s El trato de Argel -- Cory A. Reed
11. The Role of Empathy in Reading, Interpreting, and Teaching Las Casas’s Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias -- Barbara Simerka
Afterword: Teaching Early Modern Spanish Literature with a Cognitive Approach -- Isabel Jaén

Julien J. Simon, PhD
Associate Professor of Spanish & French
International Studies Committee Chair
Indiana University East
Academia<https://campuslibraryiue.academia.edu/JulienSimon>
Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature (Oxford UP, 2016)<https://goo.gl/qGpTt7>
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