Cervantes and the Comic Mind of His Age

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-815998-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 740 g

This book relates Cervantes's poetics of comic fiction to the common framework of assumptions, values, and ideas held by Spaniards of the Golden Age about the comic and the kinds of writing which expressed it. This collective mentality underwent significant evolution in the period 1500 to 1630, and the factors which caused it are reflected in the ways in which the major comic genres (satire, the picaresque, the comedia, the novella) are re-launched, transformed, and theoretically rationalized around 1600, the moment when Don Quijote and Cervantes's most famous novelas were written. Though Cervantes is universally acknowledged to be a master of comic fiction, his poetics have never before been considered from that specific angle, nor in such ample scope. In particular, the book sets itself to identify the differences between that poetics and the conceptions of comic fiction of his contemporaries, including Mateo Alemán.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Close, A. J.

Close, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Abbreviations.

- Introduction

- I: Cervantess Poetics of Comic Fiction

- Basic Values of Comedy and Satire

- The Prologue to Don Quijote R Part I and its Implications

- The Truth of History, I: Relevance and Rhetorical Pitch

- The Truth of History, II: Making Present

- II: Cervantes and the comic mind of the Spanish Golden Age

- Evolution of Spanish Attitudes to comedy, 1500-1600

- Socio-genesis, ideology, and culture

- The New Comic Ethos: Social and Aesthetic Premises

- Cervantes between Guzmán de Alfarache and its Heritage

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lecturer in Spanish, University of Cambridge, 1967-