Description
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.
Table of Contents
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.
