Heroic Forms : : Cervantes and the Literature of War / / Stephen Rupp.
Before he was a writer, Miguel de Cervantes was a soldier. Enlisting in the Spanish infantry in 1570, he fought at the battle of Lepanto, was seized at sea and held captive by Algerian corsairs, and returned to Spain with a deep knowledge of military life. He understood the costs of heroism, the fra...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Texts and Translations
- Introduction
- 1. Warriors: Epic and Tragedy
- 2. Defenders: Pastoral and Satire
- 3. Captains and Saints: Lyric and Romance
- 4. Soldiers and Sinners: Picaresque
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index