Allegories of love : Cervantes's Persiles and Sigismunda /

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Author / Creator:	Wilson, Diana de Armas, 1934-
Imprint:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1991] ©1991
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 260 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Princeton Legacy Library Princeton legacy library.
Subject:	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, -- 1547-1616. -- Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda. Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) Women in literature. Sex differences in literature. Sex differences in literature. Women in literature. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11276693

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ISBN:	9781400861798 1400861799 9780691607238 0691607230 0691068542 9780691068541
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	In the work he considered his masterpiece, Persiles and Sigismunda, Cervantes finally explores the reality of woman--an abstraction largely idealized in his earlier writing. Traditional critics have perpetuated this disembodied ideal woman: ""Every Man, "" claimed the translators of the 1706 Don Quixote, has ""some darling Dulcinea of his Thoughts."" As Diana de Armas Wilson shows, however, Cervantes himself envisioned the radical embodiment of ""Dulcinea"" in the later Persiles, a pan-European Renaissance allegory. Wilson illuminates Cervantes's strategic use of the ancient genre of Greek r.
Other form:	Print version: Wilson, Diana de Armas, 1934- Allegories of love 0691068542

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