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Michael Ross Gordon
[...]Dominguez correctly notes that there is "an unfortunate gap in Cervantes scholarship" with respect to the role memory played in 17th-century Spain (6), yet this specific lacuna falls within the broader shortcomings of criticism related to science and technology in Don Quijote that have begun to be filled only recently (e.g., issue 40.2 of this journal entitled "SciFi Cervantes"). [...]I found the cleverly- and aptly-titled chapter in which the Cousin figures prominently, "Information Overload: Stocking Memory in the Age of Cervantes," the most engaging to read and the most relevant as a scholar and educator. Dominguez meaningfully dialogues with other scholars-with Sagrario López Poza about humanist approaches to memory, with Ann Blair and the information overload deriving from the printing press, and with David C. Rubin on the nuances of oral tradition, just to name a few-while also maintains her own voice throughout the course of her book. [...]in keeping with the Cervantine tradition, Dominguez engages her readers in her narrative with strategically-placed etymological factoids we would easily recognize; for example, the hearts relationship to knowing-"saber de cord' (38)-or the rhetorical wheels {artificiosa rota) as a source for the term "rote memorization" (67)
