| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 260 pages) |
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Princeton Legacy Library |
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Princeton legacy library.
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| Contents |
Cover; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: Context and Subtexts; 1 Kidnapping Romance; Part 2: The Text; Part 3: The Woman in the Text |
| 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 r |
| Analysis |
Spanish fiction |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda.
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| SUBJECT |
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda
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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda. swd |
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Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) fast |
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Women in literature.
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Sex differences in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
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Sex differences in literature
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Women in literature
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Los trabajos de Persiles y Segismunda, historia septentrional (Cervantes)
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Ziel (Motiv)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400861798 |
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1400861799 |
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9780691607238 |
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0691607230 |
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