Toronto Iberic #: Cervantes' Architectures

The Dangers Outside

Toronto Iberic #: Cervantes' Architectures
Frederick A de Armas
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Hardback
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12 May 2022 CAN
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9781487542399
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Cervantes' Architectures is the first book dedicated to architecture in Cervantes' prose fiction. At a time when a pandemic is sweeping the world, this book reflects on the danger outside by concentrating on the role of enclosed structures as places where humans may feel safe, or as sites of beauty and harmony that provide solace. At the same time, a number of the architectures in Cervantes trigger dread and claustrophobia as they display a kind of shapelessness and a haunting aura that blends with the narrative. This volume invites readers to discover hundreds of edifices that Cervantes built with the pen. Their variety is astounding. The narrators and characters in these novels tell of castles, fortifications, inns, mills, prisons, palaces, towers, and villas which appear in their routes or in their conversations, and which welcome them, amaze them, or entrap them. Cervantes may describe actual buildings such as the Pantheon in Rome, or he may imagine structures that metamorphose before our eyes, as we come to view one architecture within another, and within another, creating an abyss of space. They deeply affect the characters as they feel enclosed, liberated, or suspended or as they look upon such structures with dread, relief, or admiration. Cervantes' Architectures sheds light on how places and spaces are perceived through words and how impossible structures find support, paradoxically, in the literary architecture of the work.

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Cervantes' Architectures opens up a critical field never explored before, revealing how architectural space in Cervantes is dynamically integral to the poetics of his oeuvre. In this groundbreaking study, de Armas brings together his unsurpassed sensibility for art and ekphrasis and a deeply intuitive sense of the meaning of inhabitable places, imaginary and real, grandiose and humble, that avows the profound symbiosis between architecture and being human in Cervantes' literary fiction. - Mercedes Alcala-Galan, Professor of Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and President of the Cervantes Society of America Cervantes' ellipsis and transformations of architecture urge us to revisit Baroque fictions of Spain as a necessary task to survive the uncertainties of climate change, the fear of the pandemic, and the claustrophobic months and years in our dwellings. - Juan Pablo Gil-Osle, Professor of Spanish, Arizona State University From looming towers to imagined castles to actual prisons, Cervantes' Architectures explores the diverse structures that abound in La Galatea, Don Quixote, and Persiles y Sigismunda. De Armas draws on Vitruvius' treatise on architecture, Renaissance artworks, the life of Cervantes, and modern theories of space and place to offer us new and fascinating ways to consider the multitudinous architectures constructed in Cervantine prose. - William Worden, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Alabama Since he has started writing novels himself, de Armas' scholarship has become even more creative. It takes a novelist to truly understand the inner workings of a novelist' s mind. This book' s brilliance is matched only by its timeliness. De Armas has taken the subjective experience of being shut in during the pandemic and transformed it into a fantastic mental tour of the buildings dotting the map of Cervantes' architectural landscape. - Hilaire Kallendorf, Professor of Hispanic and Religious Studies, Texas A&M University
Frederick A. de Armas is the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.
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ISBN-13: 9781487542399
Published: 12 May 2022
Published In: Canada
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1g
Pages: 384

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