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Canines in Cervantes and Velázquez: An Animal Studies Reading of Early Modern Spain

By Cervantes Saavedra , Miguel de; Velázquez , Diego; Cervantes Saavedra , Miguel de; Beusterien , John; Velázquez , Diego

Book information

Publisher
Ashgate Publishing
Year
2013
ISBN
1409457133, 978-1-4094-5713-8, 978-1-4094-5714-5, 1409457141
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1899491 bytes)
Series
New Hispanisms Cultural and Literary Studies;New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies
Edition
New edition
Pages
149\162
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00

Description

The study of the creation of canine breeds in early modern Europe, especially Spain, aids in composing and illustrating 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 Velazquez 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

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