Heroic forms : Cervantes and the literature of war

271 Pages·2014·0.901 MB·English

by  Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, Rupp, Stephen

HEROIC FORMS
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Heroic Forms
Cervantes and the Literature of War
STEPHEN RUPP
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Toronto Buffalo London
©University of Toronto Press 2014
Toronto Buffalo London
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Printed in the U.S.A.
ISBN 978-1-4426-4912-5 (cloth)
Printed on acid-free, 100% post-consumer recycled paper with
vegetable-based inks.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Rupp, Stephen James, author
Heroic forms : Cervantes and the literature of war / Stephen Rupp.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4426-4912-5 (bound)
1. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547–1616 – Criticism and interpretation.
2. War and literature – Spain – History – 16th century. 3. War in literature.
I. Title.
PQ6348.A3R86 2014 863'.3 C2014-902566-1
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its
publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario
Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support of the
Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for its publishing
activities.
To the memory of
James Arthur McGeer (1892–1962)
Ada Mary McGeer Rupp (1915–99)
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The Classics, it is the Classics! & not Goths nor Monks, that Desolate Europe
with Wars.
William Blake, On Homers Poetry (ca 1822)
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Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Note on Texts and Translations xv
Introduction 3
1 Warriors: Epic and Tragedy 31
2 Defenders: Pastoral and Satire 63
3 Captains and Saints: Lyric and Romance 100
4 Soldiers and Sinners: Picaresque 149
Conclusion 195
Notes 203
Works Cited 233
Index 245