Sins of the Fathers
Sins of the Fathers

Author: Hilaire Kallendorf

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2013-12-06

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 144266102X

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Sins of the Fathers considers sins as nodes of cultural anxiety and explores the tensions between competing organizational categories for moral thought and behaviours, namely the Seven Deadly Sins and the Ten Commandments. Hilaire Kallendorf explores the decline and rise of these organizational categories against critical transformations of the early modern period, such as the accession of Spain to a position of world dominance and the arrival of a new courtly culture to replace an old warrior ethos. This ground-breaking study is the first to consider Spanish Golden Age comedias as an archive of moral knowledge. Kallendorf has examined over 800 of these plays to illustrate how they provide insight into aspects of early modern experience such as food, sex, work, and money. Finally, Kallendorf engages the theoretical terminology of Marxist literary criticism to demonstrate the inherent ambiguity of cultural change.

Cervantes
Cervantes

Author: Jeremy Robbins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-02

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1317984013

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This volume commemorates the quatercentenary of Don Quijote (Part I, 1604-05), widely acknowledged to be the 'first modern novel'. Through Don Quijote, his Exemplary Novels and other major works, Cervantes, Spain's master novelist, has for centuries shaped and profoundly influenced the different literatures and cultures of numerous countries throughout the world. Containing chapters written in both English and Spanish by leading scholars worldwide, this book deals with topics as fundamental and diverse as contested discourses in Don Quijote, psychology and comic characters in Golden-Age literature, the title of Cervantes' master novel, and Cervantes, Shakespeare and the birth of metatheatre. A special issue of the journal Bulletin of Spanish Studies.

Catalogue
Catalogue

Author: Hispanic Society of America. Library

Publisher:

Published: 1962

Total Pages: 686

ISBN-13:

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Tilting at Tradition
Tilting at Tradition

Author: Daniel Syrovy

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2013-08-01

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 9401209650

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Don Quijote and Le Berger extravagant criticize fiction but come in the shape of novels. Far from breaking with their respective traditions, they engage with the chivalric and the pastoral in a creative manner. Genre and imitation are key notions for assessing the status of the novels within literary history and the œuvres of Cervantes and Sorel. With emphasis on the continuity of each writer’s approach, Le Berger extravagant is considered in the context of Sorel’s aim to educate readers and avoid romance stereotypes, while the Quijote is read as an individual take on the chivalric novel, rejecting the Spanish tradition in favor of the ironic Italian romanzo cavalleresco. Like Cervantes’ Galatea and Persiles, Don Quijote reflects a specific tradition which in turn serves to illuminate the famous book. This study offers interpretations of the two novels, but extends its scope toward the authors’ other works and additional contemporary sources including Avellaneda’s 1614 continuation of Don Quijote.

Critical Reactions and the Christian Element in the Poetry of Pierre de Ronsard
Critical Reactions and the Christian Element in the Poetry of Pierre de Ronsard

Author: Mark S. Whitney

Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13:

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Scholarly opinion on the philosophical and aesthetic significance of Ronsard's Christianity is sharply divided. This monograph makes a thorough review of the most important and representative writings on the question. The foreword by W. L. Wiley describes the broad cultural and literary framework within which Ronsard's Christianity may be examined.