Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer

Cervantes the Poet

The Don Quijote, Poetic Practice, and the Conception of the First Modern Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781009045414
• ISBN-10: 1009045415
• Artikelnr.: 75759469

Autorenporträt

Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer is Assistant Professor of Letters and Assistant Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Mimesis in the court of gentlewomen: the pastoral fabric of everyday
life; 2. Exalted apostrophes: Cervantes in the court of Isabel de Valois;
3. Figura of the Poet: pastoral Petrarchism as the practice of ingenious
gentlemen; 4. The form of the beauty: lyric lovers in the Mediterranean
world; 5. The poet as literary character: eclogues and encomia in Madrid;
6. The literary character as poet: lyric subjectivity, chronotopic
dynamism, and plot in the Galatea.