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The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes

Author : Anthony J. Cascardi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521663878

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The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes by Anthony J. Cascardi Pdf

Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605) is one of the classic texts of Western literature and the foundation of European fiction. Yet Cervantes himself remains an enigmatic figure. The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes offers a comprehensive treatment of Cervantes life and work, including his lesser known writing. The essays, by some of the most outstanding scholars in the field, cover the historical and political context of Cervantes writing, his place in Renaissance culture, and the role of his masterpiece, Don Quixote, in the formation of the modern novel. They draw on contemporary critical perspectives to shed new light on Cervantes work, including the Exemplary Novels , the plays and dramatic interludes, and the long romances, Galatea and Persiles. The volume provides useful supporting material for students; suggestions for further reading, a detailed chronology, a complete list of his published writings, an overview of translations and editions, and a guide to electronic resources.

The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel

Author : Harriet Turner,Adelaida López de Martínez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521778158

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The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel by Harriet Turner,Adelaida López de Martínez Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel presents the development of the modern Spanish novel from 1600 to the present. Drawing on the combined legacies of Don Quijote and the traditions of the picaresque novel, these essays focus on the question of invention and experiment, on what constitutes the singular features of evolving fictional forms. It examines how the novel articulates the relationships between history and fiction, high and popular culture, art and ideology, and gender and society. Contributors highlight the role played by historical events and cultural contexts in the elaboration of the Spanish novel, which often takes a self-conscious stance toward literary tradition. Topics covered include the regional novel, women writers, and film and literature. This companionable survey, which includes a chronology and guide to further reading, conveys a vivid sense of the innovative techniques of the Spanish novel and of the debates surrounding it.

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance

Author : Roberta L. Krueger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521556872

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance by Roberta L. Krueger Pdf

This Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature. Chapters describe the origins of early verse romance in twelfth-century French and Anglo-Norman courts and analyze the evolution of verse and prose romance in France, Germany, England, Italy, and Spain throughout the Middle Ages. The volume introduces a rich array of traditions and texts and offers fresh perspectives on the manuscript context of romance, the relationship of romance to other genres, popular romance in urban contexts, romance as mirror of familiar and social tensions, and the representation of courtly love, chivalry, 'other' worlds and gender roles. Together the essays demonstrate that European romances not only helped to promulgate the ideals of elite societies in formation, but also held those values up for questioning. An introduction, a chronology and a bibliography of texts and translations complete this lively, useful overview.

A Companion to Cervantes's Novelas Ejemplares

Author : Stephen F. Boyd
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1855661187

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A Companion to Cervantes's Novelas Ejemplares by Stephen F. Boyd Pdf

This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading Cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic readership. This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic readership. An extensive general Introduction places the Novelas in the context of Cervantes's life and work; provides basic information about their content, composition, internal ordering, publication, and critical reception, gives detailed consideration to the contemporary literary-theoretical issues implicit in the title, and outlines and contributes to the key critical debates on their variety, unity, exemplarity, and supposed 'hidden mystery'. After a series of chapters on the individual stories, the volume concludes with two survey essays devoted, respectively, to the understanding of eutrapelia implicit in the Novelas, andto the dynamics of the character pairing that is one of their salient features. Detailed plot summaries of each of the stories, and a Guide to Further Reading are supplied as appendices. Stephen Boyd is a lecturer in the Department of Hispanic Studies of University College Cork.

The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists

Author : Michael Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107493896

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The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists by Michael Bell Pdf

A lively and comprehensive account of the whole tradition of European fiction for students and teachers of comparative literature, this volume covers twenty-five of the most significant and influential novelists in Europe from Cervantes to Kundera. Each essay examines an author's use of, and contributions to, the genre and also engages an important aspect of the form, such as its relation to romance or one of its sub-genres, such as the Bildungsroman. Larger theoretical questions are introduced through specific readings of exemplary novels. Taking a broad historical and geographic view, the essays keep in mind the role the novel itself has played in the development of European national identities and in cultural history over the last four centuries. While conveying essential introductory information for new readers, these authoritative essays reflect up-to-date scholarship and also review, and sometimes challenge, conventional accounts.

The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians

Author : Andrew Feldherr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827690

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The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians by Andrew Feldherr Pdf

No field of Latin literature has been more transformed over the last couple of decades than that of the Roman historians. Narratology, a new receptiveness to intertextuality, and a re-thinking of the relationship between literature and its political contexts have ensured that the works of historians such as Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus will be read as texts with the same interest and sophistication as they are used as sources. In this book, topics central to the entire tradition, such as conceptions of time, characterization, and depictions of politics and the gods, are treated synoptically, while other essays highlight the works of less familiar historians, such as Curtius Rufus and Ammianus Marcellinus. A final section focuses on the rich reception history of Roman historiography, from the ancient Greek historians of Rome to the twentieth century. An appendix offers a chronological list of the ancient historians of Rome.

The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists

Author : Michael Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521515047

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The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists by Michael Bell Pdf

A survey of 25 major European novelists from Cervantes to Kundera, highlighting their contributions to the genre.

A Companion to Don Quixote

Author : Anthony J. Close
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781855661707

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A Companion to Don Quixote by Anthony J. Close Pdf

The purpose of this book is to help the English-speaking reader, with an interest in Spanish literature but without specialised knowledge of Cervantes, to understand his long and complex masterpiece: its major themes, its structure, and the inter-connections between its component parts. Beginning from a review of Don Quixote's relation to Cervantes's life, literary career, and its social and cultural context, Anthony Close goes on to examine the structure and distinctive nature of Part I (1605) and Part II (1615), the conception of the characters of Don Quixote and Sancho, Cervantes's word-play and narrative manner, and the historical evolution of posterity's interpretation of the novel, with particular attention to its influence on the theory of the genre. One of the principal questions tackled is the paradoxical incongruity between Cervantes's conception of his novel as a light work of entertainment, without any explicitly acknowledged profundity, and posterity's view of it as a universally symbolic masterpiece, revolutionary in the context of its own time, and capable of meaning something new and different to each succeeding age. ANTHONY CLOSE, now retired, was Reader in Spanish at the University of Cambridge.

The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne

Author : Thomas Keymer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827560

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The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne by Thomas Keymer Pdf

Best known today for the innovative satire and experimental narrative of Tristram Shandy (1759–67), Laurence Sterne was no less famous in his time for A Sentimental Journey (1768) and for his controversial sermons. Sterne spent much of his life as an obscure clergyman in rural Yorkshire. But he brilliantly exploited the sensation achieved with the first instalment of Tristram Shandy to become, by his death in 1768, a fashionable celebrity across Europe. In this Companion, specially commissioned essays by leading scholars provide an authoritative and accessible guide to Sterne's writings in their historical and cultural context. Exploring key issues in his work, including sentimentalism, national identity, gender, print culture and visual culture, as well as his subsequent influence on a range of important literary movements and modes, the book offers a comprehensive new account of Sterne's life and work.

The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce

Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107494947

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The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce by Derek Attridge Pdf

This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an international team of leading scholars who shed light on Joyce's work and life. The contributions are informative, stimulating and full of rich and accessible insights which will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Joyce studies. This volume is designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), and will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader.

The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather

Author : Marilee Lindemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139826969

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The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather by Marilee Lindemann Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather offers thirteen original essays by leading scholars of a major American modernist novelist. Willa Cather's luminous prose is 'easy' to read yet surprisingly difficult to understand. The essays collected here are theoretically informed but accessibly written and cover the full range of Cather's career, including most of her twelve novels and several of her short stories. The essays situate Cather's work in a broad range of critical, cultural, and literary contexts, and the introduction explores current trends in Cather scholarship as well as the author's place in contemporary culture. With a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading, the volume offers students and teachers a fresh and thorough sense of the author of My Ántonia, The Professor's House, and Death Comes for the Archbishop.

Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes

Author : Frederick Alfred De Armas
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838756247

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Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes by Frederick Alfred De Armas Pdf

"This collection of essays seeks to open up this complex interdisciplinary field of study by including essays on many aspects of visual writing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain."--Jacket.

Miguel de Cervantes: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199809448

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Miguel de Cervantes: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Oxford University Press Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of European history and culture between the 14th and 17th centuries. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.

Bernard Shaw and the Spanish-Speaking World

Author : Gustavo A. Rodríguez Martín
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030974237

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Bernard Shaw and the Spanish-Speaking World by Gustavo A. Rodríguez Martín Pdf

This book explores, through a multidisciplinary approach, the immense influence exerted by Bernard Shaw on the Spanish-speaking world on both sides of the Atlantic. This collection of essays encompasses the reception and dissemination of his ideas; the translation of his works into Spanish; the performance history of his plays in Spain and Latin America; and Shaw’s influence on many key figures of literature in Spanish. It begins by delving into Shaw’s knowledge of Spanish literature and gauging his acquaintance with the Spanish cultural milieu throughout his tenure as an art, music, and theatre critic. His early exposure to Spanish-speaking culture later made the return trip in the form of profuse critical reception and theatrical success in countries like Spain, Argentina, Mexico, and Uruguay. This allows for a more detailed investigation into the unmistakable mark that Bernard Shaw left in the oeuvre of leading Spanish-speaking authors like Ramiro de Maeztu, Jorge Luis Borges or Nemesio Canales. This volume also assesses the translations of Shaw’s works into Spanish—while also providing a detailed publication history of these translations.

The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1102643581

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The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists by Anonim Pdf

A lively and comprehensive account of the whole tradition of European fiction for students and teachers of comparative literature, this volume covers twenty-five of the most significant and influential novelists in Europe from Cervantes to Kundera. While conveying essential introductory information for new readers, these authoritative essays reflect up-to-date scholarship.