Cervantes, Aristotle, and the Persiles

Alban K. Forcione

Published by Princeton University Press 1970

Cervantes, Aristotle, and the Persiles

Alban K. Forcione

Volume 1807 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400868643

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Any student of Cervantes' literary production must at some point take into account the theories that inspired the plan and creation of Los Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda for, of all Cervantes' works, it is the one most directly related to the author's awareness of literary theory.

This volume, in attempting to clarify the Persiles, traces the major influences reflected in the Renaissance literary theories which inspired it, examines Cervantes' ambivalent attitude toward those theories as revealed in his works, and provides a close examination of the structure of the Persiles.

Originally published in 1970.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE: THE GENESIS OF THE PERSILES
CHAPTER I. The Critique and Purification of the Romance of Chivalry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
CHAPTER II. Heliodorus and Literary Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
PART TWO: CERVANTES AND THE CLASSICAL AESTHETIC
CHAPTER III. The Dialogue Between the Canon and Don Quixote Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
CHAPTER IV. The Narrator and His Audience The Liberation of the Imagination Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
PART THREE: CERVANTES AND THE CLASSICAL AESTHETIC
CHAPTER V. The Critical Examination of Literary Theory in the Persiles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
CHAPTER VI. Periandro's Narration THE HERO AS POET Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
CHAPTER VII. Topics of the Marvelous THE GARDEN PARADISE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
CHAPTER VIII. The Narrator of the Persiles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
PART FOUR: THE CERVANTINE FIGURE OF THE POET
CHAPTER IX. The Cervantine Figure of the Poet: Impostor or God? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
CONCLUSION Classicism, Truth, and the Novel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361