Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World

Zusatztext Engaging ... rich, sometimes playful, intertextual readings. Informationen zum Autor Diana de Armas Wilson is Professor of English and Renaissance Studies, University of Denver Klappentext Two sets of related issues prompt this study: the birth of the New World in European consciousness and the rise of the Cervantine novel in Spain. The first full-length study to move beyond an inventory of Cervantes's references to the Indies--to Mexico and Peru, cannibals and tobacco, parrots and alligators--this book interprets his novels as a transatlantic, cross-cultural, and multi-linguistic achievement. Zusammenfassung Two sets of related issues prompt this study: the birth of the New World in European consciousness and the rise of the Cervantine novel in Spain. The conquest, exploration, and colonization of the Indies resonate through Cervantes's two novels, Don Quixote (1605, 1615) and the Persiles (1617), both fortified by imperialism. Cervantes begins publishing in the 1580s, just as the might of imperial Spain turned from Europe towards the Atlantic. Twice refused emigration papers to America - which he depicts as the 'refuge and haven of all the desperate men of Spain' - Cervantes turns to fiction. His novels internalize many colonial discourses and at least four genres implicated in Spain's New World enterprise: the Books of Chivalry, the utopias, the colonial war epic, and American ethnohistory. The first full-length study to move beyond an inventory of Cervantes's references to the Indies - to Mexico and Peru, cannibals and tobacco, parrots and alligators - this book interprets his novels as a transatlantic, cross-cultural, and multi-linguistic achievement. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: The Americanist Cervantes 2: The Novel about the Novel 3: The Novel as 'Moletta': Cervantes and Defoe 4: Some Versions of Hybridity: cacao and Potosí 5: 'Scorpion Oil': The Books of Chivalry 6: Islands in the Mind: Utopography 7: Jewels in the Crown: The Colonial War Epic 8: Remembrance of Things Lost: Ethnohistory Conclusion Bibliography Index ...

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Introduction


• 1: The Americanist Cervantes


• 2: The Novel about the Novel


• 3: The Novel as 'Moletta': Cervantes and Defoe


• 4: Some Versions of Hybridity: cacao and Potosí


• 5: 'Scorpion Oil': The Books of Chivalry


• 6: Islands in the Mind: Utopography


• 7: Jewels in the Crown: The Colonial War Epic


• 8: Remembrance of Things Lost: Ethnohistory


• Conclusion


• Bibliography


• Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Diana de Armas Wilson, Diana de Armas Wilson, Diana De Armas (Professor of English and R Wilson, Diana de Armas (Professor of English and Renaissance Studies) Wilson
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 07.12.2000
• EAN: 9780198160052
• ISBN: 978-0-19-816005-2
• Seiten: 270
• Serien: Oxford Hispanic Studies; Oxford Hispanic Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, Spanish, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form