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Subject(s)

• Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de 1547-1616—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• War and literature—Spain—History—16th century [Browse]
• War in literature [Browse]

Publisher

• University of Toronto. Press [Browse]

Series

• Toronto Iberic ; 16. [More in this series]
• Toronto Iberic [More in this series]

Summary note

Before he was a writer, Miguel de Cervantes was a soldier. Enlisting in the Spanish infantry in 1570, he fought at the battle of Lepanto, was seized at sea and held captive by Algerian corsairs, and returned to Spain with a deep knowledge of military life. He understood the costs of heroism, the fragility of fame, and the power of the military culture of brotherhood. In Heroic Forms, Stephen Rupp connects Cervantes's complex and inventive approach to literary genre and his many representations of early modern warfare. Examining Cervantes's plays and poetry as well as his prose, Rupp demonstrates how Cervantes's works express his perceptions of military life and how Cervantes interpreted the experience of war through the genres of the era: epic, tragedy, pastoral, romance, and picaresque fiction. Amazon.com.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244) and index.

Action note

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Contents

• Warriors: epic and tragedy
• Defenders: pastoral and satire
• Captains and saints: lyric and romance
• Soldiers and sinners: picaresque.

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ISBN

• 9781442649125 (bound : acid-free paper)
• 1442649127 (bound : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2014434003

OCLC

876685808

RCP

H - S

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