Item Number: 123142 Title: Canines in Cervantes and Velazquez : An Animal Studies Reading of Early Modern Spain Author: Beusterien, John Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781409457138 Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013. 24cm., hardcover, 162pp., 10 b&w illus. Summary : 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. Contents: Introduction; The hidden dog; A Cervantine animal exemplum: animal studies and ‘The Dialogue of the Dogs’; When the dog is a book: a post-human ethics in Cervantes; As death approaches: the dog in Las meninas; Afterword: Amores perros; Appendix: the animal in identity categories; Texts cited; Index. (New Hispanisms : Cultural and Literary Studies) We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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