Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter One
  • Introduction: Cognitive Cultural Studies
  • Theory of Mind and Social Intelligence
  • Machiavellian Intelligence
  • Overview
  • Chapter Two
  • Theory of Mind, Social Intelligence, and Urban Courtship Drama
  • Wise Women in El conde Partinuples
  • Cognitive enredos in Azevedo's El muerto disimulado
  • An Insightful Martyr: La margarita del Tajo
  • Machinations of a Female Don Juan: La traicion en la amistad
  • The Deceiver Deceived: La verdad sospechosa
  • Mirror Neurons in El desden con el desden
  • Chapter Three
  • Social Intelligence and Foraging: Primates and Early Modern Picaros
  • The Picaro's Cognitive Epiphany
  • Machiavellian Intelligence, Foraging, and Famine
  • Charity, Poor Laws, and Social Intelligence
  • Beyond Beef: Social Intelligence and Swindling
  • Chapter Four
  • Social Intelligence and Social Climbing: Picaros and Cortesanos
  • Gracian, Goffman, and Self-Fashioning
  • Impression Management among Picaros
  • Social Intelligence and Gender Relations
  • ToM and Consequences
  • (Un)reliable Picaresque Narrators
  • Chapter Five
  • Contextualism, Skepticism, and Honor
  • Contextualism and Early Modern Skepticism
  • Skepticism and Female Honor
  • Gutierre's Skeptical Dilemma: El medico de su honra
  • Cognition and Curiosity in Cervantes
  • Cognitive Malpractice and Wife Murder in Zayas's Novellas
  • Satisfied Skepticism: Lope's El animal de Hungria
  • Too Good to Be True: Zayas Deconstructs
  • Happy Endings
  • Chapter Six
  • Contextualism and Performance in Lope's Lo fingido verdadero
  • Moriscos and the Performance of Christian Identity
  • Metatheater and Skepticism
  • The Real Genesius: Role Playing and Reality
  • An Actor Performs Authentic Conversion
  • Chapter Seven
  • Cognition and Reading in Don Quixote
  • The Paradox of Fiction
  • Overactive Reading: Immersion and Participatory Response
  • ToM and Machiavellian Intelligence in Don Quixote
  • Source Monitoring and Metacognition
  • Reading and the Visual Imagination: Radiant Ignition
  • Conclusion: The Practice of Cognitive Cultural Studies.