LEADER 03628nam 2200649 450 001 9910809592503321 005 20230529051607.0 010 $a1-4426-9115-8 010 $a1-4426-8757-6 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442687578 035 $a(CKB)2550000000019212 035 $a(OCoLC)635459383 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10382100 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000478110 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11306608 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478110 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10419243 035 $a(PQKB)10366476 035 $a(CaPaEBR)430742 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00224289 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3268314 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672552 035 $a(DE-B1597)465296 035 $a(OCoLC)979581314 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442687578 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672552 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258218 035 $a(OCoLC)958516464 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_106045 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000019212 100 $a20160923h20092009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCervantes' epic novel $eempire, religion, and the dream life of heroes in Persiles /$fMichael Armstrong-Roche 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2009. 210 4$dİ2009 215 $a1 online resource (421 p.) 225 1 $aUniversity of Toronto romance series 311 $a0-8020-9085-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : Cervantes' epic novel -- Europe as barbaric new world -- Christian spirituality : the law of love -- Epic recast : the dream life of the new hero -- Christian politics : church and state -- Epilogue : Cervantes' human and divine comedy. 330 $aMiguel de Cervantes conceived his final work, The Labours of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story (1617), as a great prose epic that would accomplish for its age what Homer and Virgil had done for theirs. And yet, by the eighteenth century Don Quixote had eclipsed Persiles in the favour of readers and writers alike and the later novel is now virtually forgotten except by specialists. This study sets out to help restore Persiles to pride of place within Cervantes's corpus by reading it as the author's summa, as a boldly new kind of prose epic that casts an original light on the major political, religious, social, and literary debates of its era. At the same time it seeks to illuminate how such a lofty and solemn ambition could coexist with Cervantes evident urge to delight. Grounded in the novel's multiple contexts - literature, history and politics, philosophy and theology - and in close reading of the text, Michael Armstrong-Roche aims to reshape our understanding of Persiles within the history of prose fiction and to take part in the ongoing conversation about the relationship between literary and non-literary cultural forms. Ultimately he reveals how Cervantes recast the prose epic, expanding it in new directions to accommodate the great epic themes - politics, love, and religion - to the most urgent concerns of his day. 410 0$aUniversity of Toronto romance series. 606 $aEpic literature, Spanish$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEpic literature, Spanish$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a863/.3 700 $aArmstrong-Roche$b Michael$f1962-$01689824 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809592503321 996 $aCervantes' epic novel$94065161 997 $aUNINA