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UNINA9910861973403321 |
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Autore |
Dominguez Julia |
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Titolo |
Quixotic Memories : Cervantes and Memory in Early Modern Spain |
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Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2022 |
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©2022 |
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9781487543914 |
9781487543921 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (277 pages) |
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Memory in literature |
Memory - Social aspects - Spain - History |
History |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Spain |
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Monografia |
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Introduction: Obsessions with remembering -- The anatomy of early modern memory -- Mental libraries: the places of memory -- Ut pictura memoria: the mnemonic power of images -- Information overload: stocking memory in the age of Cervantes -- Disputes over memory: Sancho and the artful manipulation of memory -- Epilogue: Lethe and the laws of oblivion: sites of forgetting in Don Quixote. |
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"This study offers insight into the plurality and complexity of memory's cultural scope through the lens of Cervantes, and specifically through his novel Don Quixote. The author explores the many spaces that memory created for itself in early modern Spain, particularly in the fields of philosophy, medicine, rhetoric, mnemotechnics, the visual arts, and pedagogy. More than a theme, memory is a system of understanding in Cervantes's world resulting from the major social, religious, and economic changes that epitomize Renaissance humanist culture and that concurrently will inform the transition to modernity. In Don Quixote, he draws on theories regarding memory that had been developed since classical antiquity and adapted to the specific circumstances of his own time: nostalgia for an earlier period as a |
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means to confront the fears that come with a rapidly changing society; exploiting the two interior senses, imagination and memory, as a powerful tool to detach oneself from society's impositions and instead endorse the right to be forgotten; pedagogical theories that evolved as a response to the intellectual overload and the impositions of the imitatio; the role of memory in a society that continued to cling to the oral tradition; the use of influential mnemonic images as persuasive devices within highly visual cultural environments; and, finally, the immense power of memory in individual and collective identity formation and, paradoxically, memory's fragility and malleability when faced with social, religious, and cultural demands."-- |
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UNINA9910634055803321 |
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Autore |
Nakassis Constantine V. |
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Onscreen/Offscreen / / Constantine V. Nakassis |
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Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2022] |
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©2022 |
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1-4875-4179-1 |
1-4875-4906-7 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (400 p.) : 40 colour illustrations, 2 b&w figures, 2 b&w tables |
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Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life |
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Motion picture industry - India - Tamil Nadu |
Motion pictures and language - India - Tamil Nadu |
Motion pictures - Political aspects - India - Tamil Nadu |
Motion pictures - Semiotics - India - Tamil Nadu |
Motion pictures - Social aspects - India - Tamil Nadu |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
Electronic books. |
India Tamil Nadu |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration, Quotation, Names, and Transcripts -- Introduction: Ontological Politics of the Image -- PART ONE Presence/Representation -- Chapter One. The Hero's Mass -- Chapter Two. The Heroine's Stigma -- PART TWO Representation/Presence -- Chapter Three. The Politics of Parody -- Chapter Four. The Politics of the Real -- Conclusions: Ends and Openings -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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"Based on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Onscreen/Offscreen is an exploration of the politics and being of filmic images. The book examines contestations inside and outside the Tamil film industry over the question “what is an image?” Answers to this question may be found in the ontological politics that take place on film sets, in theatre halls, and in the social fabric of everyday life in South India, from populist electoral politics and the gendering of social space to caste uplift and domination. Bridging and synthesizing linguistic anthropology, film studies, visual studies, and media anthropology, Onscreen/Offscreen rethinks key issues across a number of fields concerned with the semiotic constitution of social life, from the performativity and ontology of images to questions of spectatorship, realism, and presence. In doing so, it offers both a challenge to any approach that would separate image from social context and a new vision for linguistic anthropology beyond the question of “language.”"-- |
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