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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Please excuse cross-posting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">---------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Isabel Jaén and I are happy to announce in this forum the recent publication of our new book,
<i>Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature</i> (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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cognitive-approaches-to-early-modern-spanish-literature-9780190256555?cc=us&lang=en&">https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cognitive-approaches-to-early-modern-spanish-literature-9780190256555?cc=us&lang=en&#</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Many thanks and Happy New Year!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Isabel and Julien<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">PS: If you’re attending the MLA this year, you can take a look at it at the Oxford UP booth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Description of the book<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> 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
<i>Don Quixote</i> in relation to the notions of embodiment and autopoiesis as well as the
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">faculties of memory and imagination as understood in early modernity.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> 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 <i>comedia</i> 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, <i>Don Quixote</i>, and courtly conduct manuals. The final section focuses on the affective dimension of audience-performer interactions in the theatrical space<i>
</i>of the Spanish <i>corrales</i> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Table of Contents<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Introduction -- Isabel Jaén and Julien J. Simon
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Section I - An Overview of Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">1. Contextualizing Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature -- Julien J. Simon
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Section II - The Creation of Self<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">2. Embodied Cognition and Autopoiesis in
<i>Don Quixote</i> -- Howard Mancing <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">3. Why Autopoiesis and Memory Matter to Cervantes,
<i>Don Quixote</i>, and the Humanities -- Catherine Connor-Swietlicki <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">4. The Janus Hypothesis in <i>
Don Quixote</i>: Memory and Imagination in Cervantes -- Julia Domínguez <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Section III - Embodied Cognition and Performance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">5. Cognitive Theatricality: Jongleuresque Imagination on the Early Spanish Stage -- Bruce Burningham
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">6. A Mindful Audience: Embodied Spectatorship in Early Modern Madrid -- Elizabeth M. Cruz Petersen
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Section IV - Perceiving and Understanding Others<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">7. Wearing Gender on One’s Sleeve: Cross-dressing in Ángela de Azevedo’s
<i>El muerto disimulado</i> -- Judith Caballero <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">8. Don Quixote’s Response to Fiction in Maese Pedro’s Puppet Show: Madman or Transported Reader? Domingo Ródenas de Moya and José Valenzuela
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">9. Theory of Mind in Early Modern Spanish Manuals of Courtly Conduct -- Ryan Schmitz
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Section V - Feeling and Ethics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">10. Embodiment and Empathy in Early Modern Drama: The Case of Cervantes’s
<i>El trato de Argel</i> -- Cory A. Reed <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">11. The Role of Empathy in Reading, Interpreting, and Teaching Las Casas’s
<i>Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias</i> -- Barbara Simerka<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Afterword: Teaching Early Modern Spanish Literature with a Cognitive Approach -- Isabel Jaén<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Julien J. Simon, PhD</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Associate Professor of Spanish & French</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">International Studies Committee Chair</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Indiana University East</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://campuslibraryiue.academia.edu/JulienSimon"><span style="color:purple">Academia</span></a></span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://goo.gl/qGpTt7" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:purple">Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature (Oxford UP, 2016)</span></i></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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