Author: José Manuel Lucía MegíasPublisher: EDAF
ISBN: 8441439435
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
La plenitud de Miguel Cervantes. Una vida en papel (1604-1616)
Author: José Manuel Lucía MegíasPublisher: EDAF
ISBN: 8441439435
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Cervantes’ Architectures
Author: Frederick A. de ArmasPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487542402
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Cervantes’ Architectures is the first book dedicated to architecture in Cervantes’ prose fiction. At a time when a pandemic is sweeping the world, this book reflects on the danger outside by concentrating on the role of enclosed structures as places where humans may feel safe, or as sites of beauty and harmony that provide solace. At the same time, a number of the architectures in Cervantes trigger dread and claustrophobia as they display a kind of shapelessness and a haunting aura that blends with the narrative. This volume invites readers to discover hundreds of edifices that Cervantes built with the pen. Their variety is astounding. The narrators and characters in these novels tell of castles, fortifications, inns, mills, prisons, palaces, towers, and villas which appear in their routes or in their conversations, and which welcome them, amaze them, or entrap them. Cervantes may describe actual buildings such as the Pantheon in Rome, or he may imagine structures that metamorphose before our eyes, as we come to view one architecture within another, and within another, creating an abyss of space. They deeply affect the characters as they feel enclosed, liberated, or suspended or as they look upon such structures with dread, relief, or admiration. Cervantes' Architectures sheds light on how places and spaces are perceived through words and how impossible structures find support, paradoxically, in the literary architecture of the work.
The Oxford Handbook of Cervantes
Author: Aaron M. KahnPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191060577
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Although best known the world over for his masterpiece novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha, published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, the antics of the would-be knight-errant and his simple squire only represent a fraction of the trials and tribulations, both in the literary world and in society at large, of this complex man. Poet, playwright, soldier, slave, satirist, novelist, political commentator, and literary outsider, Cervantes achieved a minor miracle by becoming one of the rarest of things in the Early-Modern world of letters: an international best-seller during his lifetime, with his great novel being translated into multiple languages before his death in 1616. The principal objective of The Oxford Handbook of Cervantes is to create a resource in English that provides a fully comprehensive overview of the life, works, and influences of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616). This volume contains seven sections, exploring in depth Cervantes's life and how the trials, tribulations, and hardships endured influenced his writing. Cervantistas from numerous countries, including the United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland, the United States, Canada, and France offer their expertise with the most up-to-date research and interpretations to complete this wide-ranging, but detailed, compendium of a writer not known for much other than his famous novel outside of the Spanish-speaking world. Here we explore his famous novelDon Quixote de la Mancha, his other prose works, his theatrical output, his poetry, his sources, influences, and contemporaries, and finally reception of his works over the last four hundred years.
La plenitud de Miguel de Cervantes
Author: José Manuel Lucía MegíasPublisher: Edaf Antillas
ISBN: 9788441438903
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : es
Pages : 0
Book Description
La biografía de Cervantes está plagada de mitos, de leyendas, de lugares comunes. Así desde el siglo XVIII y así también en nuestros días. Muchos de estos mitos, leyendas y lugares comunes nacieron de la falta de datos y documentos en sus orígenes, de la necesidad de imponer una determinada imagen sobre la vida de Cervantes para defender la genialidad y la supremacía de su Don Quijote. En esta última entrega de su excelente biografía cervantina, el catedrático José Manuel Lucía Megías, rescata al hombre Miguel de Cervantes en los últimos años de su vida, los que van desde la publicación de la primera parte del Quijote, en el Valladolid de 1604, hasta los primeros años del éxito del Persiles, en el Madrid de 1617. Años cruciales en la vida de Cervantes, que se convierte, año tras año, en una vida de papel, una vida en que verá la luz un programa literario único en los Siglos de Oro, que ha quedado ensombrecido por el éxito posterior del Quijote. Lucía Megías, en esta original indagación, ofrece una nueva mirada sobre el gran genio literario que fue Cervantes, un genio más allá de sus aventuras quijotescas, un genio que fue capaz de reivindicarse como narrador y como poeta alegórico y dramático; un autor que gozó del éxito de sus lectores, como lo muestran las continuas reediciones de las Novelas ejemplares y del Persiles en contraste con el fracaso editorial de la segunda parte del Quijote. ¿Un inédito Miguel de Cervantes? Más bien, el Cervantes de siempre, pero ahora estudiado con todas sus luces y sombras, con su capacidad de trascender la literatura de su tiempo.
The Nature of Hate and the Hatred of Nature in Hispanic Literatures
Author: Beatriz Rivera-BarnesPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498596495
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
The Nature of Hate and the Hatred of Nature in Hispanic Literatures retraces the “nature of hatred” and the “hatred of nature” from the earliest traditions of Western literature including Biblical texts, Medieval Spanish literature, early Spanish Renaissance texts, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century Iberian and Latin American literatures. The nature of hate is neither hate in its weakened form, as in disliking or loving less, nor hate in its righteous form, as in “I hate hatred,” rather hate in its primal form as told and conveyed in so many culturally influential Bible stories that are at the root of hatred as it manifests itself today. The hatred of nature is not only contempt for the natural world, but also the idea of nature hating in return, thus inspiring even more hatred of nature. While some chapters, such as the one dedicated to La Celestina, focus more on the nature of hate and the hatred of love, they do address the hatred of nature, as when Celestina conjures Pluto, who happens to be closer to nature than to Satan. Other chapters, such as the ones dedicated to the Latin American novels set in the jungle, focus more on the hatred of nature but ultimately turn to the nature of hatred by analyzing hatred and the descent into madness. In the final chapters Beatriz Rivera-Barnes simultaneously addresses the nature of hatred and the hatred of nature as well as the ecophilia/ecophobia debate in twentieth-century Latin American literatures and considers, if not an assimilation of hate, possibly the cannibalizing of hate.
Miguel de Cervantes en su obra
Author: Cervantes Y la Libertad
Author: Luis RosalesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liberty in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Cervantes y su mundo: without special title
Author: Eva ReichenbergerPublisher: Edition Reichenberger
ISBN: 9783937734101
Category : Literature and society
Languages : es
Pages : 612
Book Description
Cervantes in Algiers
Author: María Antonia GarcésPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826514707
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Returning to Spain after fighting in the Battle of Lepanto and other Mediterranean campaigns against the Turks, the soldier Miguel de Cervantes was captured by Barbary pirates and taken captive to Algiers. The five years he spent in the Algerian bagnios or prison-houses (1575-1580) made an indelible impression on his works. From the first plays and narratives written after his release to his posthumous novel, the story of Cervantes's traumatic experience continuously speaks through his writings. Cervantes in Algiers offers a comprehensive view of his life as a slave and, particularly, of the lingering effects this traumatic experience had on his literary production. No work has documented in such vivid and illuminating detail the socio-political world of sixteenth-century Algiers, Cervantes's life in the prison-house, his four escape attempts, and the conditions of his final ransom. Garces's portrait of a sophisticated multi-ethnic culture in Algiers, moreover, is likely to open up new discussions about early modern encounters between Christians and Muslims. By bringing together evidence from many different sources, historical and literary, Garces reconstructs the relations between Christians, Muslims, and renegades in a number of Cervantes's writings. The idea that survivors of captivity need to repeat their story in order to survive (an insight invoked from Coleridge to Primo Levi to Dori Laub) explains not only Cervantes's storytelling but also the book that theorizes it so compellingly. As a former captive herself (a hostage of Colombian guerrillas), the author reads and listens to Cervantes with another ear.
Cervantes, the Golden Age, and the Battle for Cultural Identity in 20th-Century Spain
Author: Ana María G. LagunaPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 150137494X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Studies that connect the Spanish 17th and 20th centuries usually do so through a conservative lens, assuming that the blunt imperialism of the early modern age, endlessly glorified by Franco's dictatorship, was a constant in the Spanish imaginary. This book, by contrast, recuperates the thriving, humanistic vision of the Golden Age celebrated by Spanish progressive thinkers, writers, and artists in the decades prior to 1939 and the Francoist Regime. The hybrid, modern stance of the country in the 1920s and early 1930s would uniquely incorporate the literary and political legacies of the Spanish Renaissance into the ambitious design of a forward, democratic future. In exploring the complex understanding of the multifaceted event that is modernity, the life story and literary opus of Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) acquires a new significance, given the weight of the author in the poetic and political endeavors of those Spanish left-wing reformists who believed they could shape a new Spanish society. By recovering their progressive dream, buried for almost a century, of incipient and full Spanish modernities, Ana María G. Laguna establishes a more balanced understanding of both the modern and early modern periods and casts doubt on the idea of a persistent conservatism in Golden Age literature and studies. This book ultimately serves as a vigorous defense of the canonical as well as the neglected critical traditions that promoted Cervantes's humanism in the 20th century.