The Trials Of Persiles And Sigismunda

Author : Cervantes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781603841160

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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 : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Voyages and travels
ISBN : 1420949756

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Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0872209709

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The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

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
Publisher : Digireads.Com
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1420949748

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The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda by Miguel De Cervantes Pdf

Considered by many as the greatest of all Spanish authors, Miguel de Cervantes is most well-known of course for "Don Quixote," a work of such literary impact that its historical importance cannot be understated. Unfortunately Cervantes' other works are often overlooked and characterized as inferior to his masterpiece. While his other writings never gained the popularity of "Don Quixote," he did author several other works that are worthy of consideration. Amongst these is "The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda," a romantic novel that Cervantes finished just three days before his death, and which was posthumously published in 1617. The work stands in contrast to "Don Quixote" as a work that embraces the fantastic rather than the ordinary. While the history of literature will likely continue to regard "Don Quixote" as Cervantes' greatest contribution he himself believed this work to have been his crowning achievement.

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101067188936

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The Wanderings of Persiles and Sigismunda by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1187017120

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Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda, The by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

Author : Steven Wagschal
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826265678

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The Literature of Jealousy in the Age of Cervantes by Steven Wagschal Pdf

"Explores the theme of jealousy in early modern Spanish literature through the works of Lope de Vega, Cervantes, and Gongora. Using the philosophical frameworks of Vives, Descartes, Freud, and DeSousa, Wagschal proposes that the theme of jealousy offered a means for working through political and cultural problems involving power"--Provided by publisher.

Author : A. Grohmann,C. Wells
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230292529

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Digressions in European Literature by A. Grohmann,C. Wells Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Spanish fiction
ISBN : UCAL:B4971299

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The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140442489

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Exemplary Stories by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

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 : Michael Armstrong-Roche
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802090850

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Cervantes' Epic Novel by Michael Armstrong-Roche Pdf

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 : Roberto González Echevarría
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300132045

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Love and the Law in Cervantes by Roberto González Echevarría Pdf

The consolidation of law and the development of legal writing during Spain's Golden Age not only helped that country become a modern state but also affected its great literature. In this fascinating book, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria explores the works of Cervantes, showing how his representations of love were inspired by examples of human deviance and desire culled from legal discourse.

Author : María Antonia Garcés
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0826514707

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Cervantes in Algiers by María Antonia Garcés Pdf

Returning to Spain after fighting in the Battle of Lepanto and other Mediterranean campaigns against the Turks, the soldier Miguel de Cervantes was captured by Barbary pirates and taken captive to Algiers. The five years he spent in the Algerian bagnios or prison-houses (1575-1580) made an indelible impression on his works. From the first plays and narratives written after his release to his posthumous novel, the story of Cervantes's traumatic experience continuously speaks through his writings. Cervantes in Algiers offers a comprehensive view of his life as a slave and, particularly, of the lingering effects this traumatic experience had on his literary production. No work has documented in such vivid and illuminating detail the socio-political world of sixteenth-century Algiers, Cervantes's life in the prison-house, his four escape attempts, and the conditions of his final ransom. Garces's portrait of a sophisticated multi-ethnic culture in Algiers, moreover, is likely to open up new discussions about early modern encounters between Christians and Muslims. By bringing together evidence from many different sources, historical and literary, Garces reconstructs the relations between Christians, Muslims, and renegades in a number of Cervantes's writings. The idea that survivors of captivity need to repeat their story in order to survive (an insight invoked from Coleridge to Primo Levi to Dori Laub) explains not only Cervantes's storytelling but also the book that theorizes it so compellingly. As a former captive herself (a hostage of Colombian guerrillas), the author reads and listens to Cervantes with another ear.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004356399

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Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 9 Western and Southern Europe (1600-1700) by Anonim Pdf

Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 9 (CMR 9) is a history of everything that was written on relations in the period 1600-1700 in Western and Southern Europe. Its detailed entries contain descriptions, assessments and comprehensive bibliographical details about individual works.

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1741
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001989267

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Persiles and Sigismunda by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf