Refiguring authority : reading, writing, and rewriting in Cervantes /
In the prologue to Don Quixote, Cervantes maintains that his purpose in writing the work was to undo the pernicious moral and literary example of chivalric romances. Actually, argues E. Michael Gerli in this wide-ranging study, he often did much more. Cervantes and his contemporaries ceaselessly imi...
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| Language: | English |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©1995.
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| Series: | Studies in Romance languages (Lexington, Ky.) ;
39. |
| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=51955 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Reading, Writing, and Rewriting in Cervantes
- 1. The Dialectics of Writing: El licenciado Vidriera and the Picaresque
- 2. A Novel Rewriting: Romance and Irony in La gitanilla
- 3. Rewriting Myth and History: Discourses of Race, Marginality, and Resistance in the Captive's Tale (Don Quijote I, 37-42)
- 4. Unde veritas: Readings, Writings, Voices, and Revisions in the Text (Don Quijote I, 8-9)
- 5. Aristotle in Africa: Interrogating Verisimilitude and Rewriting Theory in El gallardo español
- 6. Rewriting Lope de Vega: El retablo de las maravillas, Cervantes' Arte nuevo de deshacer comedias.