| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 375 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Abbreviations. -- Introduction -- I: Cervantess Poetics of Comic Fiction -- Basic Values of Comedy and Satire -- The Prologue to Don Quijote R Part I and its Implications -- The Truth of History, I: Relevance and Rhetorical Pitch -- The Truth of History, II: Making Present -- II: Cervantes and the comic mind of the Spanish Golden Age -- Evolution of Spanish Attitudes to comedy, 1500-1600 -- Socio-genesis, ideology, and culture -- The New Comic Ethos: Social and Aesthetic Premises -- Cervantes between Guzman de Alfarache and its Heritage -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This text relates Cervantes's poetics of comic fiction to the common framework of assumptions, values, and ideas held by Spaniards of the Golden Age about the comic and the kinds of writing which expressed it |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-360) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Spanish wit and humor -- History and criticism
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Comedy.
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Comedy
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Spanish wit and humor
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191673733 |
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0191673730 |
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