The substance of Cervantes
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
The substance of Cervantes
Cambridge University Press, 1985
Available at / 9 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Bibliography: p. 276-285
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
There have been many interpretations of Cervantes' works over the centuries. In this 1986 book, John G. Weiger examines what he considers to be the 'substance' of Cervantes: the writer's attitude toward originality, his concern for the reader's visualization of the action and the setting, his understanding of optical illusion, his use of the commonplace, and his view of himself in relation to his contemporaries. Weiger explores Cervantes' use of these and related elements, such as imitation, parody, and the reading process, in Don Quixote, the Exemplary Tales, La Galatea, Persiles y Sigismunda, and some of his theatrical works. Of interest to students as well as scholars of Spanish and world literature, this book offers more than exegetical explication. Rather, it is an examination of the foundation upon which Cervantes constructed his works, from the early La Galatea (1585) to the posthumously published Persiles y Sigismunda (1617).
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Don Quixote: the comedy in spite of itself
- 2. Gilt o'erdusted: the problem of originality
- 3. The reality of illusion
- 4. The illusion of reality
- 5. The faculties of the soul
- 6. From happy age of gold to detestable age of iron
- 7. Phases of substance
- 8. Sum and substance
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
by "Nielsen BookData"