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Cervantes' Architectures is the first book dedicated to architecture in Cervantes' prose fiction. At a time when a pandemic is sweeping the world, this book reflects on the danger outside by concentrating on the role of enclosed structures as places where humans may feel safe, or as sites of beauty and harmony that provide solace. At the same time, a number of the architectures in Cervantes trigger dread and claustrophobia as they display a kind of shapelessness and a haunting aura that blends with the narrative.
This volume invites readers to discover hundreds of edifices that Cervantes built with the pen. Their variety is astounding. The narrators and characters in these novels tell of castles, fortifications, inns, mills, prisons, palaces, towers, and villas which appear in their routes or in their conversations, and which welcome them, amaze them, or entrap them. Cervantes may describe actual buildings such as the Pantheon in Rome, or he may imagine structures that metamorphose before our eyes, as we come to view one architecture within another, and within another, creating an abyss of space. They deeply affect the characters as they feel enclosed, liberated, or suspended or as they look upon such structures with dread, relief, or admiration.
Cervantes' Architectures sheds light on how places and spaces are perceived through words and how impossible structures find support, paradoxically, in the literary architecture of the work.
Contents
Foreword
1. Breaking Eurithmia
2. Temples and Tombs
La Galatea
Virgil and Vitruvius
Primavera's Dissonance
Theatre
Hermitage
Temple
Tombs
3. Unstable Architectures
Don Quixote, I
A Mutable Structure
A Study in Melancholy
The Imperiled Home
Windmills
Occupancy at the Inn
Lucretia's Castle
Prison / Castle
4. Windows
Don Quixote, I
Rear Window
The Ghosts of Place
Of Windows and Fortresses
Facing Windows
Window as Teichoskopia
5. Grotesque: Vying with Vitruvius
Don Quixote II
On the Way to Dulcinea's Palace
Pantheon
Tower
Hellmouth
Grotesque Anatomy
Structures of Silence
6. Treacherous Architectures
Don Quixote II
Crystal
Gold and Alabaster
Torture Chamber
Barcelona
7. A Windowless World
Persiles I, II
The Prison
A Moment's Place
Inns and Ships
A Spectral Palace
A Witching Space
8. Structures of Flight
Persiles III
Cityscape, Ellipse and Ellipsis
Lienzos
Sacred Places
The Veranzio Woman
Domitian's Tower
9. Roman Architectures
Persiles IV
A City of Relics
The Invisible Villa
A Home in Jewish Rome
The Threatening Tower
Hipólita's Enclosed Loggia
The Church Outside
Epilogue
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