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Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101067188936
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1741
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001989267
Author : Cervantes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781603841160
A gripping novel of romance and adventure, the Persiles will moreover captivate anyone interested in Cervantes' development as a novelist; the culture of the Counter-Reformation; romance as a narrative genre; gender studies; literary theory; and the study of early modern commerce, exploration, empire, and anthropology. New to this edition of Celia Richmond Weller and Clark A. Colahan's critically acclaimed translation are an updated Introduction and bibliography reflecting recent directions in scholarship on the Persiles, as well as reproductions of woodcuts from a work believed to have served Cervantes as a key anthropological source.
Author : Alban K. Forcione
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400868643
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.
Author : Michael Armstrong-Roche
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802090850
This study sets out to help restore Persiles to pride of place within Cervantes's corpus by reading it as the author's summa, as a boldly new kind of prose epic that casts an original light on the major political, religious, social, and literary debates of its era.
Author : Alban K. Forcione
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400868902
Alban Forcione analyzes the problem which has most troubled modern readers of the Persiles, its episodic character and confusing proliferation of action. Examining closely the structure of the romance Cervantes considered his masterpiece and boldest contribution to literature, Mr. Forcione discerns in it a simple pattern: a coherent cycle of catastrophe and restoration linked symbolically to the Christian vision of man's fall and redemption. Originally published in 1972. 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.
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1741
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:475418377
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140442489
Even more popular in their day than Don Quixote, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. Ranging from the picaresque to the satirical, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories defy the conventions of heroic chivalric literature through a combination of comic irony, moral ambiguity, realism, and sheer mirth. With acute narrative skill and deft characterisation, drawing on colloquial language and farce, Cervantes creates a tension between the everyday and the literary, the plausible and the improbable. While encouraging us to reach our own moral conclusions, he also persuades us to accept the coincidental and the incredible: two boys indulge their life of crime at a time of public prayer; a young nobleman undergoes a change of identity at the behest of not a princess but a mere gipsy girl, and, most fantastically, talking dogs philosophize in a ward full of syphilitics. By placing the extraordinary within the contexts of the ordinary, the Exemplary Stories chart new novelistic territory and demonstrate Cervantes at his most imaginative and innovative. This new translation captures the full vigour of Cervantes's wit and makes available two rarely printed tales, `The Illustrious Kitchen Maid' and `The Power of Blood'.
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600055427
Author : William Childers
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442615113
This ambitious work aims to utterly change the way Don Quixote and Cervantes' other works are read, particularly the posthumous The Trial of Persiles and Sigismunda. William Childers sets out to free Cervantes' work from its context within the histories of the European national literatures. Instead, he examines early modern Spanish cultural production as an antecedent to contemporary postcolonial literature, especially Latin American fiction of the past half century. In order to construct his new context for reading Cervantes, Childers proceeds in three distinct phases. First, Cervantes' relation to the Western literary canon is reconfigured, detaching him from the realist novel and associating him, instead, with magic realism. Second, Childers provides an innovative reading of The Trial of Persiles and Sigismunda as a transnational romance, exploring cultural boundaries and the hybridization of identities. Finally, Childers explores traces of and similarities to Cervantes in contemporary fiction. Theoretically eclectic and methodologically innovative, Transnational Cervantes opens up many avenues for research and debate, aiming to bring Cervantes' writings forward into the brave new world of our postcolonial age.
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0872209709
A gripping novel of romance and adventure, the Persiles will moreover captivate anyone interested in Cervantes' development as a novelist; the culture of the Counter-Reformation; romance as a narrative genre; gender studies; literary theory; and the study of early modern commerce, exploration, empire, and anthropology. New to this edition of Celia Richmond Weller and Clark A. Colahan's critically acclaimed translation are an updated Introduction and bibliography reflecting recent directions in scholarship on the Persiles, as well as reproductions of woodcuts from a work believed to have served Cervantes as a key anthropological source.
Author : Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1976-11-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101173688
Contains Don Quixote, in Samuel Putnam's acclaimed translation, substantially complete, with editorial summaries of the omitted passages; two 'Exemplary Novels, 'Rinconete and Cortadillo' and 'Man of Glass'; and 'Foot in the Stirrup,' Cervantes's extraordinary farewell to life from The Troubles of Persiles and Sigismunda.
Author : Marina S. Brownlee
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487530891
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 particular relevance to the period, the Persiles questions the issue of cultural pluralism in the Spanish empire and emphasizes the need to rethink the radically altered category of lo bárbaro/the barbarian (which included not only the Jew, the Muslim, and the Gypsy, but also the criollo, the mestizo, and the indiano), a new multiracial and multiethnic reality that posed a profound challenge to early modern Spain. The contributors offer a range of perspectives in spatial theory, psychology and subjectivity, visual culture, and literary theory.
Author : A. Grohmann,C. Wells
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230292529
With studies of, amongst others, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Charles Baudelaire and Henry James, this landmark collection of essays is a unique and wide-ranging exploration and celebration of the many forms of digression in major works by fifteen of the finest European writers from the early modern period to the present day.
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547060321
"The Wanderings of Persiles and Sigismunda" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra As the last finished work by Cervantes, written just days before his death, this book is a seminal part of literary history. It is a retelling of a Greek romance written by the Bishop of Tricca, in Thessaly, the story follows the romance of a young couple striving to be together amongst the turmoil of 17th century Europe. Considered a modern masterpiece at the time of its writing, this book is equal parts romance, adventure, and humor, all of which have earned this work the title as a culturally significant artifact.