Pornographic Sensibilities

Introduction Rethinking the Pornographic in Pre-modern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production

Nicholas R. Jones, Bucknell University and Chad Leahy, University of Denver

Part One

Pornographic Hispanisms:

Canon Formation, Erotic Concepts

Chapter 1 "?Una paja mental?": The Fiction of Friction in the Arcipreste de Hita's Story of Pitas Payas

Ross Karlan, Geffen Academy at UCLA

Chapter 2 Celestina, Prostitution, and Canonicity-or, the Book as Brothel

Emily C. Francomano, Georgetown University

Chapter 3 "Y assi su alma con su marmol arde": Garcilaso de la Vega and Renaissance
Erotica

Casey R. Eriksen, Shenandoah University

Chapter 4 Witty and Brief Eroticism: The Epigrams of Baltasar del Alcazar

J. Ignacio Diez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Chapter 5 Cervantine Obscenity in Translation

Sherry Velasco, University of Southern California

Chapter 6 Dys/Eu-phemisms: The Pornographic and the Erotic in 18th-Century Spanish

Poetry

Elena Deanda-Camacho, Washington College

Part Two

On the Visceral and its (Dis)Contents

Chapter 7 On Thresholds, Pygmalionesque Fantasies, and the 'lascivo impulso' in Erotic Poetry

Alani Hicks-Barlett, Brown University

Chapter 8 Picarasploitation: From the Early Modern Period to the 80's Spanish TV

Series

Enriqueta Zafra, Ryerson University

Chapter 9 "Tan mal frances como gastas": Syphilis in the Poetry of Quevedo

Adrian J. Saez, Universita Ca' Foscari Venezia

Chapter 10 Maria de Zayas and Woman-Authored Pornography

Margaret Boyle, Bowdoin College

Part Three:

Haptic Arousals, Titillating the Senses

Chapter 11 "Cuando te tocares, nina": An Approach to Images of Masturbation in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Poetry

Alvaro Piquero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid / Fundacion Ramon Menendez Pidal

Chapter 12 Pornophonic Noise and the Erotics of Listening in Juan Perez de Montalban's La

mayor confusion

Victor Sierra Matute, New York University

Chapter 13 Materializing Desire in Two Literary Traditions: Celestina and the Romance of

the Western Chamber

Yang Xiao, Zhejiang University

Chapter 14 Police Voyeurism in Enlightenment Mexico City

Nicole von Germeten, Oregon State University