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Allegories of Love : Cervantes's Persiles and Sigismunda / Diana de Armas Wilson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1165Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1991Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (282 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691607238
  • 9781400861798
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 863/.309 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ6327.P5
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. Context and Subtexts -- Chapter One. KIDNAPPING ROMANCE -- Chapter Two. CANONIZING ROMANCE -- Chapter Three. SOME VERSIONS OF ALLEGORY -- Chapter Four. CERVANTES AND THE ANDROGYNE -- PART TWO. The Text -- Chapter Five. CERVANTES ON CANNIBALS -- Chapter Six. PLOT AND AGENCY -- Chapter Seven. THIRTEEN EXEMPLARY NOVELS -- PART THREE. The Woman in the Text -- Chapter Eight. A ROMANCE OF RAPE: TRANSILA FITZMAURICE -- Chapter Nine. SOME PERVERSIONS OF PASTORAL: FELICIANA DE LA VOZ -- Chapter Ten. THE HISTRIONICS OF EXORCISM: ISABELA CASTRUCHA -- EPILOGUE -- INDEX
Summary: In the work he considered his masterpiece, Persiles and Sigismunda, Cervantes finally explores the reality of woman--an abstraction largely idealized in his earlier writing. Traditional critics have perpetuated this disembodied ideal woman: "Every Man," claimed the translators of the 1706 Don Quixote, has "some darling Dulcinea of his Thoughts." As Diana de Armas Wilson shows, however, Cervantes himself envisioned the radical embodiment of "Dulcinea" in the later Persiles, a pan-European Renaissance allegory. Wilson illuminates Cervantes's strategic use of the ancient genre of Greek romance to contest various chivalric fictions about women, love, and marriage--fictions collapsing under the constraints of an emerging bourgeois culture. Taking as her subject Cervantes's erotic imperative--to leave behind "barbaric" notions of love in quest of a new conceptual space--Wilson demonstrates how the heroes of the Persiles, unlike Don Quixote, learn to cross the borders of difference. Their journey toward marriage is illustrated by thirteen inset "exemplary novels," perhaps the most exploratory of Cervantes's writings. Allegories of Love not only examines the fundamental importance of sexual and cultural difference in Cervantes's last romance, but also reveals the historical conditions of representation itself during the late Renaissance.Originally published in 1991.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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. Context and Subtexts -- Chapter One. KIDNAPPING ROMANCE -- Chapter Two. CANONIZING ROMANCE -- Chapter Three. SOME VERSIONS OF ALLEGORY -- Chapter Four. CERVANTES AND THE ANDROGYNE -- PART TWO. The Text -- Chapter Five. CERVANTES ON CANNIBALS -- Chapter Six. PLOT AND AGENCY -- Chapter Seven. THIRTEEN EXEMPLARY NOVELS -- PART THREE. The Woman in the Text -- Chapter Eight. A ROMANCE OF RAPE: TRANSILA FITZMAURICE -- Chapter Nine. SOME PERVERSIONS OF PASTORAL: FELICIANA DE LA VOZ -- Chapter Ten. THE HISTRIONICS OF EXORCISM: ISABELA CASTRUCHA -- EPILOGUE -- INDEX

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In the work he considered his masterpiece, Persiles and Sigismunda, Cervantes finally explores the reality of woman--an abstraction largely idealized in his earlier writing. Traditional critics have perpetuated this disembodied ideal woman: "Every Man," claimed the translators of the 1706 Don Quixote, has "some darling Dulcinea of his Thoughts." As Diana de Armas Wilson shows, however, Cervantes himself envisioned the radical embodiment of "Dulcinea" in the later Persiles, a pan-European Renaissance allegory. Wilson illuminates Cervantes's strategic use of the ancient genre of Greek romance to contest various chivalric fictions about women, love, and marriage--fictions collapsing under the constraints of an emerging bourgeois culture. Taking as her subject Cervantes's erotic imperative--to leave behind "barbaric" notions of love in quest of a new conceptual space--Wilson demonstrates how the heroes of the Persiles, unlike Don Quixote, learn to cross the borders of difference. Their journey toward marriage is illustrated by thirteen inset "exemplary novels," perhaps the most exploratory of Cervantes's writings. Allegories of Love not only examines the fundamental importance of sexual and cultural difference in Cervantes's last romance, but also reveals the historical conditions of representation itself during the late Renaissance.Originally published in 1991.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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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