Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing.

• Introduction


• Isabel Jaén and Julien J. Simon


• Section I - An Overview of Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature


• 1. Contextualizing Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature


• Julien J. Simon


• Section II - The Creation of Self


• 2. Embodied Cognition and Autopoiesis in Don Quixote


• Howard Mancing


• 3. Why Autopoiesis and Memory Matter to Cervantes, Don Quixote, and the Humanities


• Catherine Connor-Swietlicki


• 4. The Janus Hypothesis in Don Quixote: Memory and Imagination in Cervantes


• Julia Domínguez


• Section III - Embodied Cognition and Performance


• 5. Cognitive Theatricality: Jongleuresque Imagination on the Early Spanish Stage


• Bruce Burningham


• 6. A Mindful Audience: Embodied Spectatorship in Early Modern Madrid


• Elizabeth M. Cruz Petersen


• Section IV - Perceiving and Understanding Others


• 7. Wearing Gender on One's Sleeve: Cross-dressing in Ángela de Azevedo's El muerto disimulado


• Judith Caballero


• 8. Don Quixote's Response to Fiction in Maese Pedro's Puppet Show: Madman or Transported Reader?


• Domingo Ródenas de Moya and José Valenzuela


• 9. Theory of Mind in Early Modern Spanish Manuals of Courtly Conduct


• Ryan Schmitz


• Section V - Feeling and Ethics


• 10. Embodiment and Empathy in Early Modern Drama: The Case of Cervantes's El trato de Argel


• Cory A. Reed


• 11. The Role of Empathy in Reading, Interpreting, and Teaching Las Casas's Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias


• Barbara Simerka


• Afterword


• Teaching Early Modern Spanish Literature with a Cognitive Approach


• Isabel Jaén

Isabel Jaén is Associate Professor of Spanish at Portland State University. She is co-founder and co-coordinator of the Literary Theory, Cognition, and the Brain working group at the Whitney Humanities Center in Yale University and former executive member of the Cognitive Approaches to Literature Division of the MLA (chair in 2011). She is co-editor of Cognitive Literary Studies and has recently published on Cervantes and human development, cognitive approaches to teaching Don Quixote, and empathy and gender activism in Zayas' Amorous and Exemplary Novels, among other topics.
Julien J. Simon is Associate Professor of Spanish and French at Indiana University East. He is co-founder of the Literary Theory, Cognition, and the Brain working group at the Whitney Humanities Center in Yale University (2005), former member of the executive committee for the MLA Division on Cognitive Approaches to Literature (chair in 2013), and former steering committee member of the Center for Cognitive Literary Studies at Purdue University. He has recently co-edited Cognitive Literary Studies and the special cluster Cognitive Cervantes of the Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America.