Refiguring Authority : Reading, Writing, and Rewriting in Cervantes /

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In this wide-ranging study E. Michael Gerli shows how Cervantes and his contemporaries ceaselessly imitated one another -- glossing works, dismembering and reconstructing them, writing for and against one another -- while playing sophisticated games of literary one-upmanship. The result was that lit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gerli, E. Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [1995]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, > 1547-1616.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, > 1547-1616 > Technique.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, > 1547-1616 > Knowledge > Literature.
Spanish language > Classical period > Rhetoric.
Intertextuality.
Literature.
Technique
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
Espagnol (Langue) > 1500-1700 (Periode classique) > Rhetorique.
Intertextualite.
Spanish language > Classical period, 1500-1700 > Rhetoric.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In this wide-ranging study E. Michael Gerli shows how Cervantes and his contemporaries ceaselessly imitated one another -- glossing works, dismembering and reconstructing them, writing for and against one another -- while playing sophisticated games of literary one-upmanship. The result was that literature in late Renaissance Spain was often more than a simple matter of source and imitation. It must be understood as a far more subtle, palimpsest-like process of forging endless series of texts from other texts, thus linking closely the practices of reading, writing, and rewriting. Like all major.
Physical Description:1 online resource (152 pages).
ISBN:9780813156972

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