Canines in Cervantes and Velázquez

An Animal Studies Reading of Early Modern Spain
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-27190-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 162 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 257 g

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 Velázquez 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beusterien, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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;

Über Autor(innen)

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.