Cervantes and the comic mind of his age /
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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Includes text in Spanish. |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- I: Cervantes's poetics of comic fiction
- Basic values of comedy and satire. Propiedad and discreción. El coloquio de los perros. The nocturnal encounter in Don Quijote II.48
- The prologue to Don Quijote Part I and its implications. The theory of comedy. The ironic ethos of Cervantes's comic theatre. The satire of pedantry and its motives
- The truth of history, I: relevance and rhetorical pitch. Decorum and style. Episodes. Camacho's wedding
- 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. The concept of a collective comic mind. The mote tradition. El licenciado Vidriera
- Socio-genesis, ideology, and culture. Courtly manners and humour. Social and religious discipline. Academies and academicism
- The new comic ethos: social and aesthetic premisses. López Pinciano's theory of comedy. Hidalgo's Diálogos de apacible entretenimiento. Tirso de Molina's Cigarrales de Toledo
- Cervantes between Guzmán de Alfarache and its heritage. The crisis of comedy around 1600. Guzmán de Alfarache. La pícara Justina. Salas Barbadillo. Conclusion: Cervantes.