The Celestina

Author : Fernando de Rojas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780520351226

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The Celestina by Fernando de Rojas Pdf

The Celestina is considered by scholars to be the first European novel. Written in fifteenth-century Spain, this masterpiece is remarkable for its originality, depth, handling of dialogue, and drawing of character. The novel's focus is the character of Celestina, who dominates the scene. An old bawd brimming with salty wisdom derived from a vigorous and sinful life, she is one of the great creations in all of literature and holds a secure place beside her two compatriots, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. This Spanish classic, a forebear of Cervantes, was originally published anonymously in 1499; later editions bear the name of Fernando de Rojas as author.

Author : Fernando de Rojas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520250117

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The Celestina by Fernando de Rojas Pdf

The Celestina is considered by scholars to be the first European novel. Written in fifteenth-century Spain, this masterpiece is remarkable for its originality, depth, handling of dialogue, and drawing of character. The novel's focus is the character of Celestina, who dominates the scene. An old bawd brimming with salty wisdom derived from a vigorous and sinful life, she is one of the great creations of all literature and holds a secure place beside her two compatriots, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. This Spanish classic, the greatest of the forebears of Cervantes, was originally published anonymously, in 1499; later editions bear the name of Fernando de Rojas as author.

Author : E. Michael Gerli
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442694293

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Celestina and the Ends of Desire by E. Michael Gerli Pdf

One of the most widely-read and translated Spanish works in sixteenth-century Europe was Fernando de Rojas' Celestina, a 1499 novel in dialogue about a couple that faces heartbreak and tragedy after being united by the titular brothel madam. In 'Celestina' and the Ends of Desire, E. Michael Gerli illustrates how this work straddles the medieval and the modern in its exploration of changing categories of human desire - from the European courtly love tradition to the interpretation of want as an insatiable, destructive force. Gerli's analysis draws on a wide range of Celestina scholarship but is unique in its use of modern literary and psychoanalytic theory to confront the problematic links between literature and life. Explorations of influence of desire on knowledge, action, and lived experience connect the work to seismic shifts in the culture of early modern Europe. Engaging and original, 'Celestina' and the Ends of Desire takes a fresh look at the timeless work's widespread appeal and enduring popularity.

Author : Fernando de Rojas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780520250116

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The Celestina by Fernando de Rojas Pdf

The Celestina is considered by scholars to be the first European novel. Written in fifteenth-century Spain, this masterpiece is remarkable for its originality, depth, handling of dialogue, and drawing of character. The novel's focus is the character of Celestina, who dominates the scene. An old bawd brimming with salty wisdom derived from a vigorous and sinful life, she is one of the great creations of all literature and holds a secure place beside her two compatriots, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. This Spanish classic, the greatest of the forebears of Cervantes, was originally published anonymously, in 1499; later editions bear the name of Fernando de Rojas as author.

Author : Charles F. Fraker
Publisher : Tamesis
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Celestina
ISBN : 0729302962

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Celestina by Charles F. Fraker Pdf

Professor Fraker argues that the Celestina, however original or singular, does not embody a new discourse, and falls easily within the literary norms of its time. Thus on the one hand it belongs to a genre, comedy, the term taken in a sense perfectly accessible to the two authors and their contemporaries. On the other, the detail and fabric of the work is in great part genuinely rhetorical.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004349322

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A Companion to Celestina by Anonim Pdf

Twenty-three hitherto unpublished contributions by leading experts that summarize and expand on the main areas of Celestina scholarship, offering a critical overview of the field together with innovative approaches and readings.

Author : Roberto González Echevarría
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822313715

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Celestina's Brood by Roberto González Echevarría Pdf

Published in 1499 and centered on the figure of a bawd and witch, Fernando de Rojas' dark and disturbing Celestina was destined to become the most suppressed classic in Spanish literary history. Routinely ignored in Spanish letters, the book nonetheless echoes through contemporary Spanish and Latin American literature. This is the phenomenon that Celestina's Brood explores. Roberto González Echevarría, one of the most eminent and influential critics of Hispanic literature writing today, uses Rojas' text as his starting point to offer an exploration of modernity in the Hispanic literary tradition, and of the Baroque as an expression of the modern. His analysis of Celestina reveals the relentless probing of the limits of language and morality that mark the work as the beginning of literary modernity in Spanish, and the start of a tradition distinguished by a penchant for the excesses of the Baroque. González Echevarría pursues this tradition and its meaning through the works of major figures such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Nicolás Guillén, and Severo Sarduy, as well as through the works of lesser-known authors. By revealing continuities of the Baroque, Celestina's Brood cuts across conventional distinctions between Spanish and Latin American literary traditions to show their profound and previously unimagined affinity.

Author : Cándido Ayllón
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Celestina
ISBN : WISC:89092030378

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Pessimism in the Celestina by Cándido Ayllón Pdf

Author : Fernando de Rojas
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780300156195

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Celestina by Fernando de Rojas Pdf

A timeless story of love, morality, and tragedy, Fernando de Rojas's Celestina is a classic of Spanish literature. Second only to Don Quixote in its cultural importance, Rojas's dramatic dialogue presents the elaborate tale of a star-crossed courtship between the young nobleman Calisto and the beautiful maiden Melibea in fifteenth-century Spain. Their unforgettable saga plays out in vibrant exchanges, presented here in a brilliant new translation by award-winning translator Margaret Sayers Peden. After a chance encounter with Melibea leaves Calisto entranced by her charms, he enlists the services of Celestina, an aged prostitute, madam, and procuress, to arrange another meeting. She promptly seizes control of the affair, guiding it through a series of mishaps before it meets its tragic end. At times a comic character and at others a self-assertive promoter of women's sexual license, Celestina is an inimitable personality with a surprisingly modern consciousness, certain to be relished by a new generation of readers.

Author : Enrique Fernández
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487549800

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The Image of Celestina by Enrique Fernández Pdf

La Celestina, a Spanish literary masterpiece second only in importance to Don Quixote in Spanish literature, has been shaped by the inclusion of images from its very first edition in 1499. The subsequent five centuries were punctuated by many illustrated editions; imaginary portraits of the eponymous procuress Celestina by painters such as Murillo, Goya, and Picasso; and, more recently, screen and stage adaptations. Celestina became the prototype from which later representations of procuresses and bawds derived. The Image of Celestina sheds light on the visual culture that developed around La Celestina, including paintings, illustrations, and advertisements. Enrique Fernández examines La Celestina as a mixed-media text, incorporating methods from disciplines such as art history and women’s and cinema studies, and considers a variety of images including promotional posters, lobby pictures, and playbills of theatrical and cinematic adaptations of the book. Using a visual studies approach, The Image of Celestina ultimately illuminates the culture of Celestina, a mythical figure, who surpasses the literary text in which she originated.

Author : Fernando de Rojas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N12015369

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Celestina by Fernando de Rojas Pdf

Author : Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Celestina
ISBN : UOM:39015060032730

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The Influence of the "Celestina" in the Early English Drama by Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach Pdf

Author : Charlotte Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1791
Category : English fiction
ISBN : NYPL:33433074911466

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Celestina by Charlotte Smith Pdf

Author : Gaspar Gómez de Toledo
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781512814163

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Tercera Parte de la Tragicomedia de Celestina by Gaspar Gómez de Toledo Pdf

Carefully and judiciously edited by Mac E. Barrick, the Tercera Celestina is a rare piece of Spanish Renaissance prose fiction, a literary masterpiece, and a mine of linguistic and proverbial materials.

Author : Stephen Gilman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400872558

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Spain of Fernando de Rojas by Stephen Gilman Pdf

As a major piece of historical detective work. Stephen Gilman's "La Celestina" and the Spain of Fernando de Rojas adds a new dimension to critical studies of the fifteenth-century masterpiece. Using the text of La Celestina as well as public and private archives in Spain, Mr. Oilman builds up a vivid sense of the man behind the dialogue and establishes Fernando de Rojas indisputably as its author—a figure whom critics, while ranking his novel second only to Don Quixote, have treated as semi-anonymous or non-existent. We cannot really know what the Celestina is, says Mr. Oilman, without speculating as rigorously and as learnedly as possible both on how it came to be and on how it could come to be. Thus he reconstructs the world of Rojas, country lawyer and converso, the social, religious, and intellectual milieu of Salamanca, of Spain during the Inquisition, of the converted Jew. He makes it possible for us to see the author—the law student writing feverishly during a fortnight's vacation from classes—in the context of his own times and thus to understand Rojas' achievement: his unconventionality; his sardonic judgment of the Spain in which he lived; the explosive originality, in fact, of La Celestina. 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.