The Poetics of Friendship in Early Modern Spain: A Study in Literary Form

Donald Gilbert-Santamaria

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

The Poetics of Friendship in Early Modern Spain

A Study in Literary Form

Donald Gilbert-Santamaria

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474458061

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Friendship as a poetic principle in early modern Spanish literary works

Traces the evolution of classical Aristotelian-Ciceronian notions of perfect friendship into an independent formal principle within the literary production of early modern Spain
Chapters covering several important genres from the period including the interpolated short story, the pastoral novel, the comedia, and the picaresque novel
Argues for a dialectical transformation within the poetics of friendship as an important influence in the oft-cited modernity of Cervantes’s Don Quixote
Explores the relationship between friendship and other key problems associated with literary representation in the period: subjectivity, verisimilitude, exemplarity, and imitatio, among others

Donald Gilbert-Santamaría shows how the Aristotelian–Ciceronian notion of perfect male friendship operates as an independent poetic force within the development of Spanish literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He traces the trajectory for such a poetics through key prose and theatrical works culminating in an analysis of Don Quixote where friendship emerges as an important formal influence in Cervantes’s novel. With chapters covering several important genres from the period including the pastoral novel and the comedia, the book explores the relationship between friendship and other key problems associated with literary representation in the period: subjectivity, exemplarity and imitatio, among others.

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Introduction: Toward a Poetics of Friendship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Boccaccio’s Tale of Two Friends Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2. Plotting Imperfections in La Galatea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
3. The End of an Ideal: Cervantes’s “El curioso impertinente” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
4. Staging Intimacy in Guillén de Castro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
5. María de Zayas’s Good Friends Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
6. Guzmán de Alfarache’s “Otro yo” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
7. The Errantry of Friendship in Don Quixote Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 248
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474458061