Hart Cervantes and Ariosto

Renewing Fiction
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6002-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 168 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

Thomas Hart examines Erich Auerbach's contention that Don Quixote is not a tragedy but a comedy and suggests that Auerbach's view was shaped by his reading of Ariosto's chivalric romance Orlando furioso. At the same time Hart argues that neither Don Quixote nor Orlando furioso is so free from political intention as Auerbach believed they were. He demonstrates that Cervantes shared not only Ariosto's attachment to the moral code of chivalry but also his doubts that it could be practiced effectively in the contemporary world.

Originally published in 1989.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Hart, Thomas R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Spanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Portugiesische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
CONTENTS, pg. vii
PREFACE, pg. ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xiii
INTRODUCTION, pg. 3
CHAPTER I. Erich Auerbach's Don Quixote, pg. 6
CHAPTER II. Cervantes' Debt to Ariosto: Form, pg. 16
CHAPTER III. Cervantes' Debt to Ariosto: Themes, pg. 39
CHAPTER IV. Imitation in Ariosto and Cervantes, pg. 55
CHAPTER V. Pastoral Interludes, pg. 73
CHAPTER VI. "Disprayse of a Courtly Life", pg. 96
CHAPTER VII. Don Quixote's Readers, Don Quixote as Reader, pg. 115
CONCLUSION, pg. 131
BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 135
INDEX, pg. 147
PRINCETON ESSAYS IN LITERATURE, pg. 151