Cervantes'' Epic Novel - Empire, Religion, and the Dream Life of Heroes in Persiles

Informationen zum Autor Michael Armstrong-Roche is an associate professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Wesleyan University. Klappentext This study sets out to help restore "Persiles" to pride of place within Cervantes's corpus by reading it as the author's "summa," as a boldly new kind of prose epic that casts an original light on the major political, religious, social, and literary debates of its era. Zusammenfassung This study sets out to help restore Persiles to pride of place within Cervantes’s corpus by reading it as the author’s summa, as a boldly new kind of prose epic that casts an original light on the major political, religious, social, and literary debates of its era.

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• Authors: Michael Armstrong-Roche
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.05.2009
• EAN: 9780802090850
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-9085-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: University of Toronto Romance Series; University of Toronto Romance; University of Toronto Romance Series; University of Toronto Romance
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies