Title An early self : Jewish belonging in Romance literature, 1499-1627 / Susanne Zepp ; translated by Insa Kummer

Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014] ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 261 pages) : illustrations Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. Contents Skepticism and irony : La Celestina (1499) -- An aesthetics of love : Leone Ebreo's Dialoghi d'amore (1505-1535) -- Inquisition and conversion : El Lazarillo de Tormes (1554) -- Marranism and modernity : the meaning of form in Michel de Montaigne's Essais (1580-1588) -- Sacred text and poetic form : the poetry of João Pinto Delgado (1627) -- Conclusion : Marranic experience as a paradigm of the modern age Summary What role has Jewish intellectual culture played in the development of modern Romance literature? Susanne Zepp seeks to answer this question through an examination of five influential early modern texts written between 1499 and 1627: Fernando de Rojas's La Celestina, Leone Ebreo's Dialoghi d'amore, the anonymous tale Lazarillo de Tormes (the first picaresque novel), Montaigne's Essais, and the poetical renditions of the Bible by João Pinto Delgado. Forced to straddle two cultures and religions, these Iberian conversos (Jews who converted to Catholicism) prefigured the subjectivity which would Notes "Original title: Herkunft und Textkultur : über jüdische Erfahrungswelten in romanischen Literaturen 1499-1627." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-253) and index Notes Translated from the German Print version record Subject Romance-language literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Romance-language literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism Jewish literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism Jewish literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism Judaism and literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Jewish. Jewish literature Judaism and literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780804793148 080479314X

Other Titles Herkunft und Textkultur. English

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