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Author Gerli, E. Michael, author

Title Refiguring authority : reading, writing, and rewriting in Cervantes / E. Michael Gerli
Published Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [1995]
©1995

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Description 1 online resource (154 pages)
Series Studies in Romance Languages
Studies in Romance languages (Lexington, Ky.) ; 39.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Translations and Editions; Introduction: Reading, Writing, and Rewriting in Cervantes; 1. The Dialectics of Writing: El licendado Vidriera and the Picaresque; 2. A Novel Rewriting: Romance and Irony in La gitanilla; 3. Rewriting Myth and History: Discourses of Race, Marginality, and Resistance in the Captive's Tale (Don Quijote I, 37-42); 4. Unde veritas: Readings, Writings, Voices, and Revisions in the Text (Don Quijote I, 8-9)
5. Aristotle in Africa: Interrogating Verisimilitude and Rewriting Theory in El gallardo español6. Rewriting Lope de Vega: El retablo de las maravillas, Cervantes' Arte nuevo de deshacer comedias; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary In this wide-ranging study E. Michael Gerli shows how Cervantes and his contemporaries ceaselessly imitated one another -- glossing works, dismembering and reconstructing them, writing for and against one another -- while playing sophisticated games of literary one-upmanship. The result was that literature in late Renaissance Spain was often more than a simple matter of source and imitation. It must be understood as a far more subtle, palimpsest-like process of forging endless series of texts from other texts, thus linking closely the practices of reading, writing, and rewriting. Like all major
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 -- Knowledge -- Literature
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 -- Technique
SUBJECT Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. fast (OCoLC)fst00041951
Subject Intertextuality.
Spanish language -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- Rhetoric
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
Technique
Literature.
Intertextuality.
Spanish language -- Classical period -- Rhetoric.
Genre/Form Literature.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813156972
0813156971