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Subject(s)

• Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de 1547-1616—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Architecture in literature [Browse]

Series

• Toronto Iberic ; 76. [More in this series]
• Toronto Iberic ; 76 [More in this series]

Summary note

"Cervantes' Architectures is the first book dedicated to architecture in Cervantes' prose fiction. At a time when a pandemic is sweeping the world, this book reflects on the danger outside by concentrating on the role of enclosed structures as places where humans may feel safe, or as sites of beauty and harmony that provide solace. At the same time, a number of the architectures in Cervantes trigger dread and claustrophobia as they display a kind of shapelessness and a haunting aura that blends with the narrative.This volume invites readers to discover hundreds of edifices that Cervantes built with the pen. Their variety is astounding. The narrators and characters in these novels tell of castles, fortifications, inns, mills, prisons, palaces, towers, and villas which appear in their routes or in their conversations, and which welcome them, amaze them, or entrap them. Cervantes may describe actual buildings such as the Pantheon in Rome, or he may imagine structures that metamorphose before our eyes, as we come to view one architecture within another, and within another, creating an abyss of space. They deeply affect the characters as they feel enclosed, liberated, or suspended or as they look upon such structures with dread, relief, or admiration.Cervantes' Architectures sheds light on how places and spaces are perceived through words and how impossible structures find support, paradoxically, in the literary architecture of the work."-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Breaking Eurithmia
• Temples and Tombs: La Galatea
• Unstable Architectures: Don Quixote, Part 1
• Windows: Don Quixote, Part 1
• Grotesque: Vying with Vitruvius; Don Quixote, Part 2
• Treacherous Architectures: Don Quixote, Part 2
• A Windowless North: Persiles y Sigismunda, Books 1 and 2
• Structures of Flight: Persiles y Sigismunda, Book 3
• Roman Architectures: Persiles y Sigismunda, Book 4.

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Other format(s)

Issued also in electronic format.

ISBN

• 9781487542399 (hardcover)
• 1487542399 (hardcover)

OCLC

1280275959

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