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Beyond Sight: Engaging the Senses in Iberian Literatures and Cultures, 1200–1750

Edited by Ryan D. Giles and Steven Wagschal

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Published: January 2018

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Imprint: University of Toronto Press

Series: Series: Toronto Iberic

Page Count: 360 Pages

Illustrations: 22 b&w illustrations, 4 b&w tables

Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.00

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ISBN: 9781487500030

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Beyond Sight, edited by Ryan D. Giles and Steven Wagschal, explores the ways in which Iberian writers crafted images of both Old and New Worlds using the non-visual senses (hearing, smell, taste, and touch).

The contributors argue that the uses of these senses are central to understanding Iberian authors and thinkers from the pre- and early modern periods. Medievalists delve into the poetic interiorizations of the sensorial plane to show how sacramental and purportedly miraculous sensory experiences were central to the effort of affirming faith and understanding indigenous peoples in the Americas. Renaissance and early modernist essays shed new light on experiences of pungent, bustling ports and city centres, and the exotic musical performances of empire. This insightful collection covers a wide array of approaches including literary and cultural history, philosophical aesthetics, affective and cognitive studies, and theories of embodiment. Beyond Sight expands the field of sensory studies to focus on the Iberian Peninsula and its colonies from historical, literary, and cultural perspectives.

Ryan D. Giles is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Steven Wagschal is a professor and chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Introduction

Ryan D. Giles and Steven Wagschal

Part I. Sensing Religion

Chapter 1. The Breath of Lazarus in the Mocedades de Rodrigo

Ryan D. Giles

Chapter 2. Olfaction, Sin, and Grace in Berceo’s Milagros

Víctor Rodríguez-Pereira

Part II. Cognition and the Senses

Chapter 3. Perception, Memory and Imagination in Don Qujxote

Julia Domínguez

Chapter 4. Taste, Cognition, and Redemption in Guzmán de Alfarache

Robert K. Fritz

Chapter 5. The Aesthetics of Disgust in Cervantes and Zayas

Steven Wagschal

Part III. Perception

Chapter 6. Sight, Sense, and Scents in the Cancionero de Palacio

E. Michael Gerli

Chapter 7. The Physical Senses in Early Modern Galenism Debates and Prescriptive Domestic Literature

Carolyn A. Nadeau

Chapter 8. Cervantes’s Exemplary Sensorium

Charles Victor Ganelin

Part IV. Sensing Empire

Chapter 9. The Senses of Empire and the Scents of Babylon in the Libro de Alexandre

Emily Francomano

Chapter 10. Portuguese Coastal Realms and the Delight of the Senses

Josiah Blackmore

Chapter 11. Eucharistic Thought and Imperial Longing in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Portugal

Henry Berlin

Chapter 12. Festive Soundscapes in Potosí and Minas Gerais

Lisa Voigt

Part V. Sensing the Urban

Chapter 13. Celestial Visions and Demonic Touch: García’s Inventions in La verdad sospechosa

Frederick A. de Armas

Chapter 14. Motherhood, Interrupted: Sensing Birth in Early Modern Spanish Fiction

Enrique García Santo-Tomás

"Beyond Sight is a highly readable book that appeals, quite literally, to all the senses, and which significantly expands our understanding of medieval and early modern culture."
Cory A. Reed, University of Texas at Austin, Bulletin of Spanish Studies

"With particular respect to olfaction, Beyond Sight sheds light on the hierarchy of the senses."
Asifa Majid, Center for Language Studies, Radbound University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

"Presenting cutting edge material on the non-visual senses, Beyond Sight is a major contribution to research in the field of Iberian literary and cultural studies."
Jonathan Burgoyne, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Ohio State University

Hispanic Studies / Hispanic Literature

Renaissance Studies / Renaissance Literature

Literary Studies / Renaissance Literature