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Description for Archipelagoes
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 30 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
Archipelagoes examines insularity as the space for adventure in the Spanish book of chivalry, much like the space of the forest in French chivalric romance. In this innovative work, Simone Pinet explores the emergence of insularity as a privileged place for the location of adventure in Spanish literature in tandem with the cartographic genre of the isolario.
Pinet looks closely at Amadís de Gaula and the Liber insularum archipelagi as the first examples of these genres. Both isolario and chivalric romance (libros de caballerías) make of the island a flexible yet cohesive framework that becomes intrinsic to the construction of ... Read more
Archipelagoes examines insularity as the space for adventure in the Spanish book of chivalry, much like the space of the forest in French chivalric romance. In this innovative work, Simone Pinet explores the emergence of insularity as a privileged place for the location of adventure in Spanish literature in tandem with the cartographic genre of the isolario.
Pinet looks closely at Amadís de Gaula and the Liber insularum archipelagi as the first examples of these genres. Both isolario and chivalric romance (libros de caballerías) make of the island a flexible yet cohesive framework that becomes intrinsic to the construction of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816666720
SKU
V9780816666720
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About Simone Pinet
Simone Pinet is associate professor of Spanish and medieval studies at Cornell University.
Reviews for Archipelagoes
"Archipelagoes is a work of striking originality, powerful imagination, and impressive ambition. Through a comparative study of chivalric romance (particularly Amadís), Don Quixote, and cartography, it identifies an ‘insular turn’ in late medieval and early modern culture that is central to the emergence of modern fiction." —Ricardo Padron, author of The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern ... Read more