Knowing Subjects : Cognitive Cultural Studies and Early Modern Spanish Literature / Barbara Simerka.

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.

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