Research Catalog

Title

The literature of jealousy in the age of Cervantes / Steven Wagschal.

Author

Wagschal, Steven, 1967-

Publication

Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2006.

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Description

x, 220 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Explores the theme of jealousy in early modern Spanish literature through the works of Lope de Vega, Cervantes, and Gongora. Using the philosophical frameworks of Vives, Descartes, Freud, and DeSousa, Wagschal proposes that the theme of jealousy offered a means for working through political and cultural problems involving power"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 > Criticism and interpretation
• Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635 > Criticism and interpretation
• Góngora y Argote, Luis de, 1561-1627 > Criticism and interpretation
• Spanish literature > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
• Jealousy in literature
• Literature and society > Spain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-208) and index.

Contents

Jealousy and epistemology in Lope de Vega's "Honor plays" -- Women, jealousy, and power -- Representing dramatic jealousy : from comic to tragic -- Religion, race, and ethnicity in Cervantes's Jealous old man from Extremadura -- Cervantes's virtuous jealousy -- Myth and the fractured "I" in Góngora -- Góngora on the beautiful and the sublime.

Call Number

JFE 07-3553

ISBN

• 082621696X (hard cover : alk. paper)
• 9780826216960 (hard cover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006024598

OCLC

70778319

Author

Wagschal, Steven, 1967-

Title

The literature of jealousy in the age of Cervantes / Steven Wagschal.

Imprint

Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-208) and index.

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Research Call Number

JFE 07-3553