Fernando de Rojas and the Renaissance Vision: Phantasm, Melancholy, and Didacticism in Celestina - Brossura

Castells, Ricardo

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ISBN 10: 0271028017 ISBN 13: 9780271028019

Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000

Riassunto

The late medieval masterpiece Celestina has long been the focus of controversy, over both its authorship and the apparent contradictions and inconsistencies within its plot. Scholars trace the publication of Celestina to 1499, when Fernando de Rojas supposedly discovered the first act and completed the remainder of the drama within a two-week period. The plot centers on the ill-fated love of Calisto and Melibea and the fascinating character of the old bawd, Celestina. Scholars disagree about how to interpret the meeting of the two lovers in the first scene, when they share an unusual conversation that is incongruous with their comportment in the remainder of the work. Ricardo Castells seeks to resolve this and other seeming contradictions by tracing the oneiric, phantasmal, and melancholic traditions of the Renaissance and their effect on the composition of Celestina. Castells explores the European cultural and literary tradition-works of both fiction and nonfiction that would have been available to Rojas-to discover theoretical approaches to the physiology of lovesickness and its accompanying dreams and visions. He employs the themes of love, medicine, and dreams in these works to explain the seemingly illogical progression of the play's action and the ultimately detrimental effects of melancholy, lovesickness, and sensual contamination on the protagonist, Calisto. In so doing, Castells places Celestina within its appropriate cultural and historical context, enriching our perception not only of the text itself but also of the traditions that helped to produce it.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Ricardo Castells is Associate Professor of Spanish at Florida International University. His previous book, Calisto's Dream and the Celestinesque Tradition: A Rereading of Celestina, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1995.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0271028017
• ISBN 13: 9780271028019
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 136
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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