Cervantes' Persiles and the Travails of Romance / / Marina S. Brownlee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
• VerfasserIn: Brownlee, Marina S. ,
• MitwirkendeR: Albalá Pelegrín, Marta,; Armas, Frederick A. de,; Armstrong-Roche, Michael,; Brownlee, Marina S.,; Cascardi, Anthony J.,; Castillo, David,; Childers, William P.,; Egginton, William,; Lenaghan, Patrick,; Lezra, Jacques,; Lozano-Renieblas, Isabel,; Patiño Loira, Javier,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Iberic
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)

This collection of original essays presents new ways of looking at Cervantes' final novel. Persiles, a work that engages with geopolitical models of race, ethnicity, nation, and religion, takes its inspiration from the highly influential Ethiopian Story (the Aithiopika) of Heliodorus. With part...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 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