Cervantes the poet
the Don Quijote, poetic practice, and the conception of the first modern novel
- ISBN: 9781009045414
- Editorial: Cambridge University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2025
- Lugar de la edición: Cambridge . Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 280
- Idiomas: Inglés
Cervantes the Poet travels from the court of Isabel de Valois to Rome, Naples, Palermo, Algiers, and Madrid's barrio de las letras. Recovering Cervantes' nearly forty-year literary career before the publication of Don Quijote, Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer demonstrates the cultural, literary, and theoretical significance of Cervantes' status as a late-sixteenth-century itinerant poet. This study recovers the generative literary milieus and cultural practices of Spain's most famous novelist in order to posit a new theory of the modern novel as an organic transformation of lyric practices native to the late-sixteenth century and Cervantes' own literary outlook.
Introduction: The unknown history of the conception of the Don Quijote
Mimesis in the court of gentlewomen: the pastoral fabric of everyday life
Exalted apostrophes: Cervantes in the court of Isabel de Valois
Figura of the poet: pastoral Petrarchism as the practice of ingenious gentlemen
The form of the beauty: lyric lovers in the Mediterranean world
The poet as literary character: eclogues and encomia in Madrid
The literary character as poet: lyric subjectivity, chronotopic dynamism, and the plot in the Galatea
Coda: Alonso Quijano's lyric subjectivity: interior lexicons and exterior lexicons in the conception of the modern novel
