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The poetics of piracy : emulating Spain in English literature / Barbara Fuchs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fuchs, Barbara, 1970-
- Series:
- Haney Foundation series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imitation in literature.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--Spanish influences.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Penn Press e-books.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- Barbara Fuchs examines the paradoxes in the construction of Spain in relation to its Moorish heritage through an analysis of Spanish literature, costume, language, architecture, and chivalric practices from 1492 to 1609. The first English translation of two captivity plays by Cervantes, set in Algiers and Constantinople. Featuring a lively cast of corsairs, captives, and renegades, they offer important insights into early modern Spain's conception of the world of Islam. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Forcible Translation 13
- Chapter 2 Knights and Merchants 39
- Chapter 3 Plotting Spaniards, Spanish Plots 55
- Chapter 4 Cardenio Lost and Found 79
- Chapter 5 Cardenios for Our Time 98.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780812207767
- 0812207769
- OCLC:
- 859687491
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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