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Author Gilbert-Santamaría, Donald, 1966- author.

Title The poetics of friendship in early modern Spain : a study in literary form / Donald Gilbert-Santamaria.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource (249 pages)
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Summary This book shows how the Aristotelian-Ciceronian notion of perfect male friendship operates as an independent poetic force within the development of Spanish literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Contents Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward a Poetics of Friendship -- 1. Boccaccio's Tale of Two Friends -- 2. Plotting Imperfections in La Galatea -- 3. The End of an Ideal: Cervantes's "El curioso impertinente" -- 4. Staging Intimacy in Guillén de Castro -- 5. María de Zayas's Good Friends -- 6. Guzmán de Alfarache's "Otro yo" -- 7. The Errantry of Friendship in Don Quixote -- Works Cited -- Index
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Subject Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Friendship in literature.
Friendship in literature.
Spanish literature -- Classical period.
Chronological Term 1500-1700
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Gilbert-Santamaria, Donald The Poetics of Friendship in Early Modern Spain : A Study in Literary Form Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,c2020 9781474458047
ISBN 9781474458061
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1474458041
9781474458047