Celestina and the Ends of Desire

Gerli, E. Michael

University of Toronto Press（2011/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781442642553
• DDC分類 863.2

Full Description

One of the most widely-read and translated Spanish works in sixteenth-century Europe was Fernando de Rojas' Celestina, a 1499 novel in dialogue about a couple that faces heartbreak and tragedy after being united by the titular brothel madam. In 'Celestina' and the Ends of Desire, E. Michael Gerli illustrates how this work straddles the medieval and the modern in its exploration of changing categories of human desire - from the European courtly love tradition to the interpretation of want as an insatiable, destructive force.
Gerli's analysis draws on a wide range of Celestina scholarship but is unique in its use of modern literary and psychoanalytic theory to confront the problematic links between literature and life. Explorations of influence of desire on knowledge, action, and lived experience connect the work to seismic shifts in the culture of early modern Europe. Engaging and original, 'Celestina' and the Ends of Desire takes a fresh look at the timeless work's widespread appeal and enduring popularity.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction



The Chain of Desire: Linking Language and Longing
Celestina, Mistress of Desire
Calisto's Hunt: The Pursuit of Carnal Knowledge
Yearning to Look: Desire and the Pleasure of the Gaze
Complicitous Laughter: The Sounds of Desire
Melibea Speaks: Language and Feminine Desire
The Desire to Belong and the Body Politic
Precints of Contention: Locating Desire and Ideology in Celestina
Pleberio and the Ends of Desire

Notes
Works Cited
Index