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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Main Author: Gerli, E. Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [1995]
Series:Studies in Romance languages (Lexington, Ky.) ; 39.
Subjects:
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, > 1547-1616 > Knowledge > Literature.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, > 1547-1616 > Technique.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, > 1547-1616
Intertextuality.
Spanish language > Classical period, 1500-1700 > Rhetoric.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
Technique
Literature
Intertextuality
Spanish language > Classical period > Rhetoric
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Translations and Editions; Introduction: Reading, Writing, and Rewriting in Cervantes; 1. The Dialectics of Writing: El licendado Vidriera and the Picaresque; 2. A Novel Rewriting: Romance and Irony in La gitanilla; 3. Rewriting Myth and History: Discourses of Race, Marginality, and Resistance in the Captive's Tale (Don Quijote I, 37-42); 4. Unde veritas: Readings, Writings, Voices, and Revisions in the Text (Don Quijote I, 8-9).
  • 5. Aristotle in Africa: Interrogating Verisimilitude and Rewriting Theory in El gallardo español6. Rewriting Lope de Vega: El retablo de las maravillas, Cervantes' Arte nuevo de deshacer comedias; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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