Research Catalog

Title

Knowing subjects : cognitive cultural studies and early modern Spanish literature / Barbara Simerka.

Author

Simerka, Barbara, 1957-

Publication

West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2013.

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Description

xi, 259 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 57

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Purdue studies in Romance literatures v. 57.

Subject

• 1500-1700
• Spanish literature > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
• Cognitive learning theory
• Picaresque literature, Spanish > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: ch. One Introduction: Cognitive Cultural Studies -- Theory of Mind and Social Intelligence -- Machiavellian Intelligence -- Overview -- ch. Two Theory of Mind, Social Intelligence, and Urban Courtship Drama -- Wise Women in El conde Partinuples -- Cognitive enredos in Azevedo's El muerto disimulado -- An Insightful Martyr: La margarita del Tajo -- Machinations of a Female Don Juan: La traicion en la amistad -- The Deceiver Deceived: La verdad sospechosa -- Mirror Neurons in El desden con el desden -- ch. Three Social Intelligence and Foraging: Primates and Early Modern Picaros -- The Picaro's Cognitive Epiphany -- Machiavellian Intelligence, Foraging, and Famine -- Charity, Poor Laws, and Social Intelligence -- Beyond Beef: Social Intelligence and Swindling -- ch. Four Social Intelligence and Social Climbing: Picaros and Cortesanos -- Gracian, Goffman, and Self-Fashioning -- Impression Management among Picaros --^
• Social Intelligence and Gender Relations -- ToM and Consequences -- (Un)reliable Picaresque Narrators -- ch. Five Contextualism, Skepticism, and Honor -- Contextualism and Early Modern Skepticism -- Skepticism and Female Honor -- Gutierre's Skeptical Dilemma: El medico de su honra -- Cognition and Curiosity in Cervantes -- Cognitive Malpractice and Wife Murder in Zayas's Novellas -- Satisfied Skepticism: Lope's El animal de Hungria -- Too Good to Be True: Zayas Deconstructs -- Happy Endings -- ch. Six Contextualism and Performance in Lope's Lo fingido verdadero -- Moriscos and the Performance of Christian Identity -- Metatheater and Skepticism -- The Real Genesius: Role Playing and Reality -- An Actor Performs Authentic Conversion -- ch. Seven Cognition and Reading in Don Quixote -- The Paradox of Fiction -- Overactive Reading: Immersion and Participatory Response -- ToM and Machiavellian Intelligence in Don Quixote -- Source Monitoring and Metacognition --^
• Reading and the Visual Imagination: Radiant Ignition -- Conclusion: The Practice of Cognitive Cultural Studies.

ISBN

• 9781557536440 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1557536449 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781612492674 (epdf)
• 1612492673 (epdf)
• 9781612492681 (epub)
• 1612492681 (epub)

LCCN

^^2012039055

OCLC

• 806019441
• SCSB-10708621

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library