Allegories of Love : : Cervantes's Persiles and Sigismunda / / Diana de Armas Wilson.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE. Context and Subtexts
- Chapter One. KIDNAPPING ROMANCE
- Chapter Two. CANONIZING ROMANCE
- Chapter Three. SOME VERSIONS OF ALLEGORY
- Chapter Four. CERVANTES AND THE ANDROGYNE
- PART TWO. The Text
- Chapter Five. CERVANTES ON CANNIBALS
- Chapter Six. PLOT AND AGENCY
- Chapter Seven. THIRTEEN EXEMPLARY NOVELS
- PART THREE. The Woman in the Text
- Chapter Eight. A ROMANCE OF RAPE: TRANSILA FITZMAURICE
- Chapter Nine. SOME PERVERSIONS OF PASTORAL: FELICIANA DE LA VOZ
- Chapter Ten. THE HISTRIONICS OF EXORCISM: ISABELA CASTRUCHA
- EPILOGUE
- INDEX