Cervantes' Persiles and the travails of romance /

"This collection of original essays presents new ways of looking at Cervantes' final novel. Persiles, a work that engages with geopolitical models of race, ethnicity, nation, and religion, takes its inspiration from the highly influential Ethiopian Story (the Aithiopika) of Heliodorus. Wit...

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Other Authors: Brownlee, Marina Scordilis (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Series:Toronto Iberic ; 39.
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Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / Brownlee, Marina S.
  • Space and Place
  • Cervantes' Hermetic Architectures: The Dangers Outside in Persiles IV / Armas, Frederick A. de
  • The Lucianic Gaze Novelized: The Familiar Made Strange in Persiles / Armstrong-Roche, Michael
  • Chastity and Symbolism in Persiles / Lozano-Renieblas, Isabel
  • Psychic Dimensions
  • Enigmas of Psychology in Persiles / Cascardi, Anthony J.
  • Communal Norms and Individuated Desire in Persiles / Childers, William P.
  • Cervantes' Persiles and Early Modern Theories of Wonder / Patiño Loira, Javier
  • Visual Effects
  • Visual Genres and the Rhetoric of Violence in Cervantes' Persiles / Albalá Pelegrín, Marta
  • Illustrating Persiles: A Neoclassic Vision of Cervantes' Last Novel / Lenaghan, Patrick
  • Constructive Interruptions
  • Cervantes' Treatment of Otherness, Contamination, and Conventional Ideals in Persiles and Other Works / Castillo, David / Egginton, William
  • Imaginary Labour / Lezra, Jacques
  • Interruption and the Fragment: Heliodorus and Persiles / Brownlee, Marina S.
  • Works Cited
  • Contributors
  • Index