Quixotic Memories

Julia Dominguez is a professor of Spanish at Iowa State University.

• IntroductionObsessions with Remembering: The Culture of Memory in Early Modern Spain1. The Anatomy of Early Modern MemoryCervantes and the Early Modern MindThe Topography of the Early Modern BrainMemory and RecollectionDon Quixote’s Memory2. Mental Libraries: The Places of MemoryImaginary LibrariesCervantes and Artificial MemoryThe Art of Memory and Its TraditionThe Art of Memory in the Time of CervantesSierra Morena: The Vast Territories of Memory3. Ut Pictura Memoria: The Mnemonic Power of ImagesVisual Expressions of Mnemonic Culture in the Age of CervantesCervantine Mnemonic InflectionsThe Mnemonic Power of Images: The Imago Agente in Don Quixote Affectio and the Corporeality of the PhantasmataThe Circulation of Images in Cultural Artefacts4. Information Overload: Stocking Memory in the Age of CervantesThe Anxiety of the "Labyrinths of Letters" Pedagogy, Mnemonics, and the Limits of Humanist EducationThe Cousin: Student and HumanistExternal MemoriesThe Mimetic Memory of the Cousin5. Disputes over Memory: Sancho and the Artful Manipulation of Memory"O Sancho miente o Sancho sueña""A fe que no os falta memoria cuando vos queréis tenerla": Sancho’s Selective Memory"Como ya pasó, no es" The Story of Torralba and the Performative Dimension of Memory"Alta y sobajada señora…"The False Memory Embedded in ImaginationEpilogueLethe and the Laws of Oblivion: Sites of Forgetting in Don Quixote

"With her masterful analysis of how Cervantes treats memory throughout Don Quixote, Domínguez has accomplished something quite rare in the world of Cervantine studies, a field populated by new books every month: writing a book that will be remembered."- William Worden, The University of Alabama (Hispanófila)