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Refiguring Authority

Gerli, E Michael
Refiguring Authority
In the prologue to Don Quixote, Cervantes maintains that his purpose in writing the work was to undo the pernicious moral and literary example of chivalric romances. Actually, argues E. Michael Gerli in this wide-ranging study, he often did much more. Cervantes and his contemporaries ceaselessly imitated one another - glossing works, dismembering and reconstructing them, writing for and against one another, while playing sophisticated games of...

CHF 23.50

Celestina and the Ends of Desire

Gerli, E. Michael
Celestina and the Ends of Desire
In 'Celestina' and the Ends of Desire, E. Michael Gerli illustrates how Fernando de Rojas' 1499 novel straddles the medieval and the modern in its exploration of changing categories of human desire - from the European courtly love tradition to the interpretation of want as an insatiable, destructive force.

CHF 85.00

Reading, Performing, and Imagining the Libro del Arcipreste

Gerli, E Michael
Reading, Performing, and Imagining the Libro del Arcipreste
Examines how reading, writing, and interpretation reside at the core of the cultural history of the Castilian Libro del Arcipreste from its creation in the first part of the fourteenth century. The study situates the Libro within the tradition of Augustinian hermeneutics and exegetics, develops hypotheses concerning the performative cues in the Libro, and deals with the rewriting and reimagining of the Libro on into modernity.

CHF 81.00