Knowing Subjects : Cognitive Cultural Studies and Early Modern Spanish.
Simerka, Barbara.
Knowing Subjects : Cognitive Cultural Studies and Early Modern Spanish. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (273 pages) - Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures Series ; v.57 . - Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures Series .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations and Cognitive Terms -- Chapter One: Introduction: Cognitive Cultural Studies -- Theory of Mind and Social Intelligence -- Machiavellian Intelligence -- Overview -- Chapter Two: Theory of Mind, Social Intelligence, and Urban Courtship Drama -- Wise Women in El conde Partinuplés -- Cognitive enredos in Azevedo's El muerto disimulado -- An Insightful Martyr: La margarita del Tajo -- Machinations of a Female Don Juan: La traición en la amistad -- The Deceiver Deceived: La verdad sospechosa -- Mirror Neurons in El desdén con el desdén -- Chapter Three: Social Intelligence and Foraging: Primates and Early Modern Pícaros -- The Pícaro's Cognitive Epiphany -- Machiavellian Intelligence, Foraging, and Famine -- Charity, Poor Laws, and Social Intelligence -- Beyond Beef: Social Intelligence and Swindling -- Chapter Four: Social Intelligence and Social Climbing: Pícaros and Cortesanos -- Gracián, Goffman, and Self-Fashioning -- Impression Management among Pícaros -- Social Intelligence and Gender Relations -- ToM and Consequences -- (Un)reliable Picaresque Narrators -- Chapter Five: Contextualism, Skepticism, and Honor -- Contextualism and Early Modern Skepticism -- Skepticism and Female Honor -- Gutierre's Skeptical Dilemma: El médico de su honra -- Cognition and Curiosity in Cervantes -- Cognitive Malpractice and Wife Murder in Zayas's Novellas -- Satisfied Skepticism: Lope's El animal de Hungría -- Too Good to Be True: Zayas Deconstructs Happy Endings -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author.
9781612492674
Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Cognitive learning theory.
Picaresque literature, Spanish--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PQ6066.S525 2013
860.9
Knowing Subjects : Cognitive Cultural Studies and Early Modern Spanish. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (273 pages) - Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures Series ; v.57 . - Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures Series .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations and Cognitive Terms -- Chapter One: Introduction: Cognitive Cultural Studies -- Theory of Mind and Social Intelligence -- Machiavellian Intelligence -- Overview -- Chapter Two: Theory of Mind, Social Intelligence, and Urban Courtship Drama -- Wise Women in El conde Partinuplés -- Cognitive enredos in Azevedo's El muerto disimulado -- An Insightful Martyr: La margarita del Tajo -- Machinations of a Female Don Juan: La traición en la amistad -- The Deceiver Deceived: La verdad sospechosa -- Mirror Neurons in El desdén con el desdén -- Chapter Three: Social Intelligence and Foraging: Primates and Early Modern Pícaros -- The Pícaro's Cognitive Epiphany -- Machiavellian Intelligence, Foraging, and Famine -- Charity, Poor Laws, and Social Intelligence -- Beyond Beef: Social Intelligence and Swindling -- Chapter Four: Social Intelligence and Social Climbing: Pícaros and Cortesanos -- Gracián, Goffman, and Self-Fashioning -- Impression Management among Pícaros -- Social Intelligence and Gender Relations -- ToM and Consequences -- (Un)reliable Picaresque Narrators -- Chapter Five: Contextualism, Skepticism, and Honor -- Contextualism and Early Modern Skepticism -- Skepticism and Female Honor -- Gutierre's Skeptical Dilemma: El médico de su honra -- Cognition and Curiosity in Cervantes -- Cognitive Malpractice and Wife Murder in Zayas's Novellas -- Satisfied Skepticism: Lope's El animal de Hungría -- Too Good to Be True: Zayas Deconstructs Happy Endings -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author.
9781612492674
Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Cognitive learning theory.
Picaresque literature, Spanish--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PQ6066.S525 2013
860.9