Seneca and Celestina

Klappentext This book examines the reason and intent behind the many Senecan and pseudo-Senecan quotations in Fernando de Rojas' masterpiece Celestina. Zusammenfassung This book examines the reason and intent behind the many Senecan and pseudo-Senecan quotations in Fernando de Rojas' masterpiece Celestina (1499)! which enjoyed enormous popularity in sixteenth-century Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Towards a Senecan tradition; 2. Senecan commentary as a frame of reference; 3. The 'antiguo autor' as a reader of Seneca; 4. Fernando de Rojas continues the story: the Comedia de Calisto y Melibea; 5. Res et verba in Seneca, Petrarch and Rojas; 6. Readers ask for more: the Tragicomedia del Calisto y Melibea; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Senecan 'sententiae'; General index.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Louise Fothergill-Payne, Fothergill-Payne Louise
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 15.10.2009
• EAN: 9780521121187
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12118-7
• Pages: 192
• Thème: Cambridge Iberian and Latin Am
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique générale et comparée