Cervantes, Raphael and the Classics

Klappentext A study of classical influences on Cervantes! with particular attention to Raphael. Zusammenfassung In this book! Frederick de Armas argues that throughout his literary career! Cervantes was engaged in a conversation with the classical authors of Greece and Rome! especially through the interpretations of antiquity presented by the artist Raphael. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Preface; 1. The politics of imitation; 2. Raphael: a Vatican of the mind; 3. Raphael: the archaeology of power; 4. Giulio Romano: remembering Rome; 5. Aeschylus: praising the enemy; 6. Homer: an epic contest; 7. Virgil: prophesying Empire; 8. Lucan: the necromancy of imitation; 9. Contaminatio: epic flames/textual ashes; 10. Cicero/Macrobius: intimations of immortality; Notes; Works sited; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Frederick A. De Armas, Frederick Alfred De Armas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2010
• EAN: 9780521152778
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15277-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Latin Ame; Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature; Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Spanish, History of Art, Renaissance art, Renaissance style, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers