Refiguring authority : reading, writing, and rewriting in Cervantes /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
The University Press of Kentucky,
[1995]
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| Series: | Studies in Romance languages (Lexington, Ky.) ;
39. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (154 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813156972 0813156971 0813170079 9780813170077 |