Cervantes' Epic Novel: Empire, Religion, and the Dream Life of Heroes in Persiles
Michael Armstrong-Roche
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hardcover. 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. Series: University of Toronto Romance Series. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 31. Weight in Grams: 820.
Miguel de Cervantes conceived his final work, The Labours of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story (1617), as a great prose epic that would accomplish for its age what Homer and Virgil had done for theirs. And yet, by the eighteenth century Don Quixote had eclipsed Persiles in the favour of readers and writers alike and the later novel is now virtually forgotten except by specialists.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Series
University of Toronto Romance Series
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802090850
SKU
V9780802090850
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About Michael Armstrong-Roche
Michael Armstrong-Roche is an associate professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Wesleyan University.
Reviews for Cervantes' Epic Novel: Empire, Religion, and the Dream Life of Heroes in Persiles
‘I find Armstrong-Roche’s close readings astute and illuminating, and his overall hypotheses about workings of paradox in the text are persuasive.’
Barbara Fuchs
Modern Philology, vol 110:03:2013
Barbara Fuchs
Modern Philology, vol 110:03:2013