Introduction: The unknown history of the conception of the Don Quijote -- Mimesis in the court of gentlewomen: the pastoral fabric of everyday life -- Exalted apostrophes: Cervantes in the court of Isabel de Valois -- Figura of the poet: pastoral Petrarchism as the practice of ingenious gentlemen -- The form of the beauty: lyric lovers in the Mediterranean world -- The poet as literary character: eclogues and encomia in Madrid -- The literary character as poet: lyric subjectivity, chronotopic dynamism, and the plot in the Galatea -- Coda: Alonso Quijano's lyric subjectivity: interior lexicons and exterior lexicons in the conception of the modern novel.
Summary:
"Cervantes the Poet travels from the court of Isabel de Valois to Rome, Naples, Palermo, Algiers, and Madrid's barrio de las letras. Recovering Cervantes' nearly forty-year literary career before the publication of Don Quijote, Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer demonstrates the cultural, literary, and theoretical significance of Cervantes' status as a late-sixteenth- century itinerant poet. This study recovers the generative literary milieus and cultural practices of Spain's most famous novelist in order to posit a new theory of the modern novel as an organic transformation of lyric practices native to the late-sixteenth century and Cervantes' own literary outlook"-- Provided by publisher.
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