Anxieties of interiority and dissection in early modern Spain /Enrique Fernandez.
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (ix, 276 pages_
- Toronto Iberic series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Dissective Narratives -- 1 Dissection and Interiority: The Case of Spain -- 2 Fray Luis de Granada's Ill-fated Defence of the Inner Man -- 3 Quevedo and the Interiority of the Body Politic -- 4 Cervantes's Mechanical Interiors and Zayas's Female Anatomies -- Conclusion: Compliant Resistance.
Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spainbrings the study of Europe's "culture of dissection" to the Iberian peninsula, presenting a neglected episode in the development of the modern concept of the self.
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Mind and body in literature. Self in literature. Human dissection in literature. Body and soul in literature.