9780813119229 - refiguring authority: reading, writing, and rewriting in cervantes di gerli, e. michael (9 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. In this wide-ranging study E. Michael Gerli shows how Cervantes and his contemporaries ceaselessly imitated one another--glossing works, dismembering and reconstructing them, writing for and against one another--while playing sophisticated games of literary one-upmanship. The result was that literature in late Renaissance Spain was often more than a simple matter of source and imitation. It must be understood as a far more subtle, palimpsest-like process of forging endless series of texts from other texts, thus linking closely the practices of reading, writing, and rewriting. Like all major writers of the age, Cervantes was responding not just to specific literary traditions but to a broad range of texts and discourses. He expected his well-read audience to recognize his sources and to appreciate their transformations. The notion of writing as reading and reading as writing is thus central to an understanding of Cervantes' literary invention. As he created his works, he constantly questioned and reconfigured the authority of other texts, appropriating, combining, naturalizing, and effacing them, displacing them with his own themes, images, styles, and beliefs. Modern literary theory has confirmed what Cervantes and his contemporaries intuitively knew--that reading and writing are closely linked dimensions of the literary enterprise. Reading Cervantes and his contemporaries in this way enables us to cojnprehend the craft, wit, irony, and subtle conceit that he at the heart of seventeenth-century Spanish literature.…

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Condizione: New. Num Pages: 148 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399. . 1995. Hardcover. . . . .

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Condizione: New. Num Pages: 148 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399. . 1995. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condizione: Bueno. Condizione sovraccoperta: Bueno. Refiguring Authority. Reading, Writing and Rewriting in Cervantes. Michael Gerli. Kentucky, 1996. Michael Gerli. The University Press of Kentucky, 1996. Tapa dura con sobrecubierta. Idioma Inglés. 500 gramos. VER TODAS LAS FOTOS. Cervantes; Cervantino; Cervantina; Quijote; Quixote; Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.…

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