Allegories of Love (eBook)

Cervantes's Persiles and Sigismunda

Diana de Armas Wilson (Autor)

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2014
282 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6179-8 (ISBN)

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In the work he considered his masterpiece, Persiles and Sigismunda, Cervantes finally explores the reality of woman--an abstraction largely idealized in his earlier writing. Traditional critics have perpetuated this disembodied ideal woman: "Every Man," claimed the translators of the 1706 Don Quixote, has "some darling Dulcinea of his Thoughts." As Diana de Armas Wilson shows, however, Cervantes himself envisioned the radical embodiment of "Dulcinea" in the later Persiles, a pan-European Renaissance allegory. Wilson illuminates Cervantes's strategic use of the ancient genre of Greek romance to contest various chivalric fictions about women, love, and marriage--fictions collapsing under the constraints of an emerging bourgeois culture. Taking as her subject Cervantes's erotic imperative--to leave behind "barbaric" notions of love in quest of a new conceptual space--Wilson demonstrates how the heroes of the Persiles, unlike Don Quixote, learn to cross the borders of difference. Their journey toward marriage is illustrated by thirteen inset "exemplary novels," perhaps the most exploratory of Cervantes's writings. Allegories of Love not only examines the fundamental importance of sexual and cultural difference in Cervantes's last romance, but also reveals the historical conditions of representation itself during the late Renaissance.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
• Schlagworte: A Defence of Poetry • Aeschylus • Aethiopica • Alexander Pope • Allegory • Anatomy of Criticism • Andreas Capellanus • Anthropomorphism • Antonomasia • Apollonius of Tyre • Aristophanes • Ars Poetica (Horace) • Belianis • Book of Chivalry • catharsis • Chariton • Charles Whibley • chivalric romance • Clarissa • conceit • Counter-Reformation • Courtly Love • Critical Essays (Orwell) • Disenchantment • Don Quixote • Dream Vision • El coloquio de los perros • english poetry • Epic Poetry • erudition • Essay • Existentialism • Fiction • Figure of Speech • Frances Burney • Fredric Jameson • Gaban • Garcilaso de la Vega (poet) • Gargantua and Pantagruel • Gene H. Bell-Villada • Genre • Geoffrey Hartman • G. (novel) • Greek Mythology • Horace • Incubus • Irony • James Strachey • Jean de Meun • Juan de la Cuesta • La Galatea • leontes • libidinal economy • Literary Theory • Literature • loeb classical library • longus • Lothario • Matter of Britain • M. H. Abrams • Miguel de Cervantes • narrative • Novel • obscenity • Parody • Paul de Man • petrarch • Picaresque novel • Poetry • Postmodernism • post-structuralism • Prudentius • Psychoanalysis • Psychoanalytic literary criticism • psychomachia • Pun • Pythagoreanism • Quintilian • reality principle • ridicule • Romanticism • Samuel Daniel • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Satire • SCHOLASTICISM • sentimentality • Shakespeare's late romances • simile • Superiority (short story) • sycorax • The Birth of Tragedy • the canonization • The Faerie Queene • The Nature of Truth • Torquato Tasso • Trivium • V. • Verisimilitude (fiction) • wild man • William Shakespeare
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6179-9 / 1400861799
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6179-8 / 9781400861798