Dorothy Sherman Severin

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Tragicomedy and Novelistic Discourse in CelestinaHardcover, 1 June 1989

Tragicomedy and Novelistic Discourse in Celestina
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Part of Series
Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies
Part of Series
Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy, and Society in Pas
Print Length
160 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Date Published
1 Jun 1989
ISBN-10
0521350859
ISBN-13
9780521350853

Description

The late fifteenth-century Spanish masterpiece Celestina is one of the world's classics. In this important study, Dorothy Sherman Severin investigates how Fernando de Rojas' work in dialogue, which parodies earlier genres, is a precursor of the modern novel. In Celestina, the hero Calisto parodies the courtly lover, the heroine Melibea lives through classical examples and popular students' knowledge, the bawd and go-between Celestina deals a blow to the world of wisdom literature, and Melibea's father Pleberio gives his own gloss on the lament. There is also a fatal clash between two literary worlds, that one of the self-styled courtly lover (the fool) and the prototype picaresque world of the Spanish Bawd and her mentors (the rogues). The voices of Celestina are parodic, satiric, ironic and occasionally tragic, and it is in their discourse that the dialogue world of the modern novel is born. In order to make this book accessible to a wider English-speaking readership, quotations from the text are accompanied by English translations, mainly from the seventeenth-century English version by James Mabbe.

Product Details

Author:
Dorothy Sherman Severin
Book Format:
Hardcover
Date Published:
1 June 1989
Dimensions:
21.59 x 13.79 x 1.3 cm
ISBN-10:
0521350859
ISBN-13:
9780521350853
Language:
English
Location:
Cambridge
Pages:
160
Weight:
303.91 gm

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