Tragicomedy and Novelistic Discourse in Celestina

Klappentext An investigation by Dorothy Sherman Severin of the importance of Rojas' Celestina as a precursor to the modern novel. Zusammenfassung The late fifteenth-century Spanish masterpiece Celestina is one of the world's classics. In this important study! Dorothy Sherman Severin investigates how Fernando de Rojas' work in dialogue! which parodies earlier genres! is a precursor of the modern novel. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Celestina and novelistic discourse; 2. The prefatory material: the author's ambivalent intentions; 3. Genre and the parody of courtly love; 4. From parody to satire: clerical and estates satire; 5. Verbal humour and the legacy of stagecraft; 6. The rhetorical shift from comedy to tragedy: ironic foreshadowing and premonitions of death; 7. Is Melibea a tragic figure?; 8. Pleberio's lament, Cárcel de Amor, and the Corbacho; 9. Conclusion: Rojas' ambivalence towards literature; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Dorothy Sherman Severin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521122832
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12283-2
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Cambridge Iberian and Latin Am
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics