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The Poetics of Friendship in Early Modern Spain: A Study in Literary Form

The Poetics of Friendship in Early Modern Spain: A Study in Literary Form

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 147445805X
ISBN13: 9781474458054
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: May 30 2022
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Friendship as a poetic principle in early modern Spanish literary works
Donald Gilbert-Santamaría shows how the Aristotelian-Ciceronian notion of perfect male friendship operates as an independent poetic force within the development of Spanish literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He traces the trajectory for such a poetics through key prose and theatrical works culminating in an analysis of Don Quixote where friendship emerges as an important formal influence in Cervantes's novel. With chapters covering several important genres from the period including the pastoral novel and the comedia, the book explores the relationship between friendship and other key problems associated with literary representation in the period: subjectivity, exemplarity and imitatio, among others.

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