Research Catalog

Title

Cervantes's theory of the novel / by E.C. Riley.

Author

Riley, E. C.

Publication

Newark : Juan de la Cuesta, c1992.

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Details

Description

xii, 244 p.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Documentación cervantina ; 13

Uniform Title

Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic monographs. Series Documentación cervantina no. 13.

Subject

• Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616
• Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 > Criticism and interpretation
• Fiction
• Fiction > History and criticism > Theory, etc

Genre/Form

• novels.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Fiction
• Novels
• Romans.

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [226]-234.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

[Pt.] I. Introductory -- 1. Cervantes and the literary theory of his time -- 2. Art and the rules -- 3. The author-critic -- 4. Literature and life in Don Quixote -- [Pt.] II. First principles -- 1. From the epic to the novel -- 2. Art and nature, imitation and invention -- 3. The imitation of models -- 4. The making of a writer : natura, studium, exercitatio -- 5. Erudition -- [Pt.] III. Author and reader -- 1. The functions of the novel : pleasure and profit -- 2. The functions of the novel : admiratio -- 3. Morality -- 4. Author and public -- [Pt.] IV. The form of the work -- 1. Variety and unity -- 2. Style and decorum -- 3. Diction -- 4. Decoration and hyperbole -- [Pt.] V. The truth of the matter -- 1. History and fiction -- 2. Verisimilitude and the marvellous -- 3. [Pt.] VI. Heroes, authors, and rivals in Don Quixote -- 1. The heroes commemorated -- 2. The fictitious-authorship device -- 3. Avellaneda's Quixote.

ISBN

0936388560

OCLC

• 27398876
• SCSB-12892624

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library