Images in Mind - Lovesickness, Spanish Sentimental Fiction and Don Quijote (Paperback, New)

Fifteenth-century Spanish sentimental fiction can be described as a palimpsest, a dense web of entangled, faded readings and a challenge to the reader. While the parameters of writing sentimental fiction and its textuality have been explored with great success, its readers and how they approached these works have been largely neglected.

Based on a reconstruction of the medical notion of love-as-sickness ("amor heroes"), premodern reading habits, and interpretive strategies, this book approaches canonical works of sentimental romance from the perspective of a medical-sensitive reader. An analysis of "Don Quijote" silhouetted against the subtext of sentimental romance reveals how faculty psychology and lovesickness resonate in Golden Age literature.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literature, No. 274
Release date:	2003
First published:	February 2003
Authors:	Robert Folger
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	270
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8078-9278-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
LSN:	0-8078-9278-5
Barcode:	9780807892787

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