Archipelagoes [electronic resource] : insular fictions from chivalric romance to the novel / Simone Pinet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinet, Simone.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish fiction--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Spanish fiction.

Romances, Spanish--History and criticism.

Romances, Spanish.

Islands in literature.

Geography in literature.

Cartography in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""Archipelagoes"" examines insularity as the space for adventure in the Spanish book of chivalry, much like the space of the forest in French chivalric romance. In this innovative work, Simone Pinet explores the emergence of insularity as a privileged place for the location of adventure in Spanish literature in tandem with the cartographic genre of the isolario. Pinet looks closely at ""Amadis de Gaula"" and the ""Liber insularum archipelagi"" as the first examples of these genres. Both isolario and chivalric romance (""libros de caballerias"") make of the island a flexible yet cohesive framew

Contents:

Introduction: spatial concepts, medieval context

Forest to island: sites of adventure from Arthur to Amadís

Islands and maps: a very short history

Adventure and archipelago: Amadís de Gaula and the insular turn

Shores of fiction: the insular image in Amadís and Cervantes

Conclusion: archipelagic possibilities.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-7675-5

OCLC:

741492679