Vision, the Gaze, and the Function of the Senses in “Celestina” 9780271072388

The plot of the late-medieval Spanish work Celestina (1499) centers on the ill-fated love of Calisto and Melibea and the

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Vision,

the G a z e , and the

Function of the Senses in

Celestina

P E N N STATE S T U D I E S in R O M A N C E L I T E R A T U R E S Editors Frederick A. de Armas Norris Lacy Allan Stoekl

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Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age by Anthony J. Cascardi Medieval Spanish Epic: Mythic Roots and Ritual Language by Thomas Montgomery Unfinished Revolutions: Legacies of Upheaval in Modern French Culture edited by Robert 7: Denomme and Roland H. Simon Stages of Desire: The Mythological Tradition in Classical and Contemporary Spanish Theater by Michael Kidd Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press by Lou Charnon-Deutsch The Novels and Plays of Eduardo Manet: An Adventure in Multiculturalism by Phyllis Zatlin Fernando de Rojas and the Renaissance Vision: Phantasm, Melancholy, and Didacticism in Celestina by Ricardo Castells The Poetics of Empire in the Indies: Prophecy and Imitation in La Araucana and 0 s Luciadas byJames Nicolopulos Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men Mavgaret Greer Vision, the Gaze, and the Function of the Senses in Celestina James F. Burke

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