Cervantes the Poet

• Author(s): Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 300
• ISBN_10: 131651739X
  ISBN_13: 9781316517390
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / General ,

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.