A Mindful Audience: Embodied Spectatorship in Early Modern Madrid

The year’s work in stylistics 2016

“…Simon’s (2016) introduction contextualises the various cognitive approaches to Golden Age Spanish literature, where literary culture was very much alive and publicly enacted. The chapters that follow consider these rich literary texts and performative contexts using familiar concepts, such as: Theory of Mind (Schmitz, 2016); embodiment (Cruz Petersen, 2016; Mancing, 2016; Reed, 2016); and empathy (Reed, 2016; Simerka, 2016). The editors describe the volume’s research as employing a ‘contemporaneous–contemporary methodology’ (Jaén and Simon, 2016: 5), which in its application of cognitive theories from now and then, aims to uncover the relationship between the mind and the arts of the period.…”