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Women of the Prologue: Imitation, Myth, and Magic in Don Quixote I

Carolyn A. Nadeau

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Description:Carolyn Nadeau examines the significance of the sources cited for female characterization in the Prologue and their relationship to Cervantes' writing style. When the anonymous friend suggests that Cervantes include Guevara's Lamia, Laida, and Flora ; Ovid's Media ; Homer's Calypso ; and Virgil's Circe as models for specific types of women, he not only foregrounds the significance of these classical women for the female characters in the text but also partakes in the controversial debate of the value of imitatio at the historic juncture of Humanist and Modernist perspectives on cultural authority. The book opens with a discussion of literary conventions and imitation strategies of the early modern period and continues with Cervantes' contributions to both. Conclusions point to how Cervantes' stance on imitation and his stance on female identity share commonalities. He strives to release both writing practices and female identity from a repressive ideology of the self and focuses on their transformative nature. Nadeau argues that he presents for both writer and female character to define oneself by and for oneself and not in terms of an "other." Finally, in both cases, he stresses the importance of absence to distance himself from past tradition and to emphasize greater freedom and responsibilities for writer and reader and for women in seventeenth-century Spain.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Women of the Prologue: Imitation, Myth, and Magic in Don Quixote I. To get started finding Women of the Prologue: Imitation, Myth, and Magic in Don Quixote I, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Carolyn Nadeau examines the significance of the sources cited for female characterization in the Prologue and their relationship to Cervantes' writing style. When the anonymous friend suggests that Cervantes include Guevara's Lamia, Laida, and Flora ; Ovid's Media ; Homer's Calypso ; and Virgil's Circe as models for specific types of women, he not only foregrounds the significance of these classical women for the female characters in the text but also partakes in the controversial debate of the value of imitatio at the historic juncture of Humanist and Modernist perspectives on cultural authority. The book opens with a discussion of literary conventions and imitation strategies of the early modern period and continues with Cervantes' contributions to both. Conclusions point to how Cervantes' stance on imitation and his stance on female identity share commonalities. He strives to release both writing practices and female identity from a repressive ideology of the self and focuses on their transformative nature. Nadeau argues that he presents for both writer and female character to define oneself by and for oneself and not in terms of an "other." Finally, in both cases, he stresses the importance of absence to distance himself from past tradition and to emphasize greater freedom and responsibilities for writer and reader and for women in seventeenth-century Spain.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Women of the Prologue: Imitation, Myth, and Magic in Don Quixote I. To get started finding Women of the Prologue: Imitation, Myth, and Magic in Don Quixote I, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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