Cervantes the Poet
The Don Quijote, Poetic Practice, and the Conception of the First Modern Novel
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 30 October 2025
- ISBN 9781009045414
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 229x152x15 mm
- Weight 409 g
- Language English 768
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Short description:
Through analysis of Cervantes' status as an itinerant poet, this book overturns conventional theories of the modern novel's genesis.
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Cervantes the Poet travels from the court of Isabel de Valois to Rome, Naples, Palermo, Algiers, and Madrid's barrio de las letras. Recovering Cervantes' nearly forty-year literary career before the publication of Don Quijote, Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer demonstrates the cultural, literary, and theoretical significance of Cervantes' status as a late-sixteenth-century itinerant poet. This study recovers the generative literary milieus and cultural practices of Spain's most famous novelist in order to posit a new theory of the modern novel as an organic transformation of lyric practices native to the late-sixteenth century and Cervantes' own literary outlook.
'Ponce-Hegenauer has contributed something quite new and important to our understanding of the genealogy of Cervantes' Don Quijote:&&&160;that the origins of the Quijote (and by extension, of the modern novel) lie in the mixed prose-lyric forms best exemplified by the Renaissance pastoral novel-and not, as is commonly supposed, in the epic or in the books of chivalry. Cervantes the Poet represents an impressive scholarly achievement.' Anthony J. Cascardi, University of California, Berkeley
Table of Contents:
1. Mimesis in the court of gentlewomen: the pastoral fabric of everyday life; 2. Exalted apostrophes: Cervantes in the court of Isabel de Valois; 3. Figura of the Poet: pastoral Petrarchism as the practice of ingenious gentlemen; 4. The form of the beauty: lyric lovers in the Mediterranean world; 5. The poet as literary character: eclogues and encomia in Madrid; 6. The literary character as poet: lyric subjectivity, chronotopic dynamism, and plot in the Galatea.
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