Of Fine Arts and Fine Feelings: Mapping Affect across Lessing's Laocoön, Lord Carteret's Quijote, and Oldfield's "Advertencias"

Authors

  • Paul Michael Johnson DePauw University

Keywords:

Affect, Emotion, ut pictura poesis, Image vs. text, Book Illustration, Don Quijote

Abstract

This article studies how the painting-versus-poetry debate and tradition of ut pictura poesis may enhance our understanding of affect in arts and culture.  Through a close reading of a brief theoretical text by John Oldfield, included in an eighteenth-century British edition of Cervantes’s Don Quijote, it demonstrates that trans-generic crossings such as that of book illustration offer insights beyond the limitations of Lessing’s more famous Laocoön.  At the same time, Oldfield’s text and the edition’s illustrations collectively produce an innovative reading of Cervantes’s novel through the lens of affect.

 

Author Biography

Paul Michael Johnson, DePauw University

Assistant Professor of Modern Languages (Spanish)

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Published

2016-01-31

How to Cite

Johnson, P. M. (2016). Of Fine Arts and Fine Feelings: Mapping Affect across Lessing’s Laocoön, Lord Carteret’s Quijote, and Oldfield’s "Advertencias". 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (14), 121–137. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/452f/article/view/14148

Issue

No. 14 (2016): Thinking about Affect in Culture and Art

Section

Monograph

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