Tragicomedy and Novelistic Discourse in Celestina
(Part of the Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:052112283X
ISBN13:9780521122832
Release Date:November 2009
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:156 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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