Armstrong-Roche, Michael
Cervantes' Epic Novel

Empire, Religion, and the Dream Life of Heroes in 'Persiles'.

The study sets out to help restore Persiles to pride of place within Cervantes's corpus by reading it as the author's summa, as a boldly new kind of prose epic that casts an original light on the major political, religious, social, and literary debates of its era. At the same time it seeks to illuminate how such a lofty and solemn ambition could coexist with Cervantes evident urge to delight. Grounded in the novel's multiple contexts - literature, history and politics, philosophy and theology - and in close reading of the text, Michael Armstrong-Roche aims to reshape our understanding of Persiles within the history of prose fiction and to take part in the ongoing conversation about the relationship between literary and non-literary cultural forms. 406 Seiten, gebunden (University of Toronto Press 2009) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren/clean text pages, minor traces of use