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Tilting at Tradition : Problems of Genre in the Novels of Miguel de Cervantes and Charles Sorel.

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 situating these novels in literary history and in...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Syrovy, Daniel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2013.
Colección:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Part I: Charles Sorel's Berger extravagant; (i) By way of introduction: An early testimony; (ii) A brief word on method; (iii) Sorel's poetics; (iv) Utilitas; (v) Berger extravagant and Anti-Roman; (vi) The genre of the novel(s); (vii) The structure of the Berger extravagant; (viii) The meaning of the Anti-Roman; (ix) Charles Sorel, novelist; or, the quest for vraisemblance; (x) Conclusion: Novel or treatise?; Part II: Cervantes' Don Quijote; (i) Principles of method; (ii) First solution: Don Quijote as criticism.
  • (Iii) Cervantes' stylistic tradition(iv) Humor and genre; (v) Cervantes and genre; (vi) Don Quijote as a chivalric romance; Part III: The Larger Picture; (i) Backgrounds; (ii) Cervantes and Avellaneda; (iii) Sorel's Polyandre, a new histoire comique; Conclusion: Genre and 'Parody'; Appendix: A Problem of Terminology; Bibliography; Index.