Cervantes, Aristotle, and the Persiles / / Alban K. Forcione.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Forcione, Alban K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1970
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1807
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)

Any student of Cervantes' literary production must at some point take into account the theories that inspired the plan and creation of Los Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda for, of all Cervantes' works, it is the one most directly related to the author's awareness of literary theory.This volume, in attempting to clarify the Persiles, traces the major influences reflected in the Renaissance literary theories which inspired it, examines Cervantes' ambivalent attitude toward those theories as revealed in his works, and provides a close examination of the structure of the Persiles.Originally published in 1970.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE: THE GENESIS OF THE PERSILES -- CHAPTER I. The Critique and Purification of the Romance of Chivalry -- CHAPTER II. Heliodorus and Literary Theory -- PART TWO: CERVANTES AND THE CLASSICAL AESTHETIC -- CHAPTER III. The Dialogue Between the Canon and Don Quixote -- CHAPTER IV. The Narrator and His Audience The Liberation of the Imagination -- PART THREE: CERVANTES AND THE CLASSICAL AESTHETIC -- CHAPTER V. The Critical Examination of Literary Theory in the Persiles -- CHAPTER VI. Periandro's Narration THE HERO AS POET -- CHAPTER VII. Topics of the Marvelous THE GARDEN PARADISE -- CHAPTER VIII. The Narrator of the Persiles -- PART FOUR: THE CERVANTINE FIGURE OF THE POET -- CHAPTER IX. The Cervantine Figure of the Poet: Impostor or God? -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- Index