Cervantes' Persiles and the Travails of Romance.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (322 pages)
- Toronto Iberic Series .
- Toronto Iberic Series .
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.