Brownlee, Marina S.

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.

9781487530884


Electronic books.

PQ6327.P5 .C478 2019