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Author Zepp, Susanne, author.

Title An early self : Jewish belonging in Romance literature, 1499-1627 / Susanne Zepp ; translated by Insa Kummer.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 261 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Note "Original title: Herkunft und Textkultur : über jüdische Erfahrungswelten in romanischen Literaturen 1499-1627."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-253) and index.
Contents Skepticism and irony : La Celestina (1499) -- An aesthetics of love : Leone Ebreo's Dialoghi d'amore (1505-1535) -- Inquisition and conversion : El Lazarillo de Tormes (1554) -- Marranism and modernity : the meaning of form in Michel de Montaigne's Essais (1580-1588) -- Sacred text and poetic form : the poetry of João Pinto Delgado (1627) -- Conclusion : Marranic experience as a paradigm of the modern age.
Summary What role has Jewish intellectual culture played in the development of modern Romance literature? Susanne Zepp seeks to answer this question through an examination of five influential early modern texts written between 1499 and 1627: Fernando de Rojas's La Celestina, Leone Ebreo's Dialoghi d'amore, the anonymous tale Lazarillo de Tormes (the first picaresque novel), Montaigne's Essais, and the poetical renditions of the Bible by João Pinto Delgado. Forced to straddle two cultures and religions, these Iberian conversos (Jews who converted to Catholicism) prefigured the subjectivity which would.
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Language Translated from the German.
Subject Romance-language literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
Romance-language literature.
Jewish authors.
Judaism and literature.
Judaism and literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Title Herkunft und Textkultur. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014074838
Other Form: Print version: Zepp, Susanne, author. Herkunft und Textkultur. English. Early self 9780804787451 (DLC) 2014021453 (OCoLC)880237283
ISBN 9780804793148 (electronic book)
080479314X (electronic book)
9780804787451 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
080478745X (cloth ; alkaline paper)

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