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

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.

Author: Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/25/2023
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781316517390