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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