Cervantes' Persiles and the Travails of Romance.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781487530884
- PQ6327.P5 .C478 2019
Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Marina S. Brownlee -- Space and Place -- Cervantes' Hermetic Architectures: The Dangers Outside in Persiles IV -- The Lucianic Gaze Novelized: The Familiar Made Strange in Persiles -- Chastity and Symbolism in Persiles -- Psychic Dimensions -- Enigmas of Psychology in Persiles -- Communal Norms and Individuated Desire in Persiles -- Cervantes' Persiles and Early Modern Theories of Wonder -- Visual Effects -- Visual Genres and the Rhetoric of Violence in Cervantes' Persiles -- Illustrating Persiles: A Neoclassic Vision of Cervantes' Last Novel -- Constructive Interruptions -- Cervantes' Treatment of Otherness, Contamination, and Conventional Ideals in Persiles and Other Works -- Imaginary Labour -- Interruption and the Fragment: Heliodorus and Persiles -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index.
Cervantes' Persiles and the Travails of Romance explores the lure of the Aethiopika while also seeking to articulate the reasons for Cervantes' enthusiasm for his own text.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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