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The literature of jealousy in the age of Cervantes /

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 Góngora. 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
  • Góngora y Argote, Luis de, 1561-1627 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Jealousy in literature
  • Literature and society > Spain
  • Spanish literature > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
  • Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635 > Criticism and interpretation
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.
ISBN
  • 082621696X (hard cover : alk. paper)
  • 9780826216960 (hard cover : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2006024598
  • 9780826216960
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library