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Heroic Forms : Cervantes and the Literature of War / Stephen Rupp.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781442649125
  • 9781442619500
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 863/.3 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ6348.A3 R86 2014b
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Texts and Translations -- Introduction -- 1. Warriors: Epic and Tragedy -- 2. Defenders: Pastoral and Satire -- 3. Captains and Saints: Lyric and Romance -- 4. Soldiers and Sinners: Picaresque -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: Before he was a writer, Miguel de Cervantes was a soldier. Enlisting in the Spanish infantry in 1570, he fought at the battle of Lepanto, was seized at sea and held captive by Algerian corsairs, and returned to Spain with a deep knowledge of military life. He understood the costs of heroism, the fragility of fame, and the power of the military culture of brotherhood.In Heroic Forms, Stephen Rupp connects Cervantes's complex and inventive approach to literary genre and his many representations of early modern warfare. Examining Cervantes's plays and poetry as well as his prose, Rupp demonstrates how Cervantes's works express his perceptions of military life and how Cervantes interpreted the experience of war through the genres of the era: epic, tragedy, pastoral, romance, and picaresque fiction.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Texts and Translations -- Introduction -- 1. Warriors: Epic and Tragedy -- 2. Defenders: Pastoral and Satire -- 3. Captains and Saints: Lyric and Romance -- 4. Soldiers and Sinners: Picaresque -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

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Before he was a writer, Miguel de Cervantes was a soldier. Enlisting in the Spanish infantry in 1570, he fought at the battle of Lepanto, was seized at sea and held captive by Algerian corsairs, and returned to Spain with a deep knowledge of military life. He understood the costs of heroism, the fragility of fame, and the power of the military culture of brotherhood.In Heroic Forms, Stephen Rupp connects Cervantes's complex and inventive approach to literary genre and his many representations of early modern warfare. Examining Cervantes's plays and poetry as well as his prose, Rupp demonstrates how Cervantes's works express his perceptions of military life and how Cervantes interpreted the experience of war through the genres of the era: epic, tragedy, pastoral, romance, and picaresque fiction.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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