Canines in Cervantes and Velázquez

An Animal Studies Reading of Early Modern Spain

John Beusterien (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

162 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
9781138271906 (ISBN)

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The study of the creation of canine breeds in early modern Europe, especially Spain, illustrates the different constructs against which notions of human identity were forged. This book is the first comprehensive history of early modern Spanish dogs and it evaluates how two of Spain’s most celebrated and canonical cultural figures of this period, the artist Diego VelÃ¡zquez and the author Miguel de Cervantes, radically question humankind’s sixteenth-century anthropocentric self-fashioning. In general, this study illuminates how Animal Studies can offer new perspectives to understanding Hispanism, giving readers a fresh approach to the historical, literary and artistic complexity of early modern Spain.

John Beusterien is Associate Professor of Spanish and Director Comparative Literature Program in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at Texas Tech University, USA.

Introduction; Chapter 1 The Hidden Dog; Chapter 2 A Cervantine Animal Exemplum; Chapter 3 When the Dog is a Book; Chapter 4 As Death Approaches; Chapter 101 Afterword;

Erscheinungsdatum	15.02.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781138271906 / 9781138271906
Zustand	Neuware