Novel foundations architecture and literary modernity in Cervantes' prose works Katherine L. Brown

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Katherine L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.

Architecture and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Other Title:

Architecture and literary modernity in Cervantes' prose works

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press, 2026.

Oxford New York, NY Oxford University Press [2026]

Summary:

'Novel Foundations' is an interdisciplinary study of the narrative functions of architecture in Miguel de Cervantes' late prose fictions: 'Don Quijote' (1605 and 1615), the 'Exemplary Novels' (1613), and 'The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda' (1617). Drawing upon Renaissance architectural theory and practice, it considers the implications of Cervantes' insistent references to real and imagined architectural spaces and elements of urban design in his works. It examines Cervantes' appropriation of early modern Italian and Spanish architectural discourses, as well as his evocation and transformation of classical analogies that linked built spaces to cognition, human nature, rhetoric, and religion

Contents:

Cover

Novel Foundations : Architecture and Literary Modernity in Cervantes' Prose Works

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures

1 : Introduction: Foundations for the Study of Architecture in Cervantes' Prose Works

Overview: Cervantes and Architecture

Theoretical Cornerstones: Architecture as Space and Symbol

Architecture and the Cervantine Novel: Considerations of Genre

Analysing Architecture in Cervantes: A Blueprint

2 : The Locus of Locura: Architecture and Madness in the Quijote

Overview: The Spaces of Madness in the Quijote

The "Citadel of Reason": Architecture and Rationality in Renaissance Europe

"Los aposentos de la cabeza": The Architecture of Madness

The loci of locura

The Aesthetics of Emptiness: Madness and the Construction of Reality

3 : Holes in the Story : Authors, Narrators, and Readers as Architects in the Quijote

Overview: Building Literary Worlds in the Quijote

Literature as Architecture, Architecture as Literature: Building Blocks of an Analogy

Textual Ruins: The Paradoxical Foundations of Cervantes' Literature

Constructing the Narrative: Authors, Narrators, and Translators as Architects

Restructuring Literary Forms: Architecture and Invention in the 1615 Quijote

4 : The Blueprints of Literature : Architecture in the Novelas ejemplares

Overview: The Structure(s) of the Exemplary Novels

"La plaza de nuestra república": The Prologue as Interpretive Blueprint

"Lamentables ruinas" and "revueltos arcaduces": Architecture and Ephemerality in the Exemplary Novels

Constructive Deconstruction: Architecture and Narration in The Power of Blood and The Jealous Extremaduran

Frame Tales: Doors, Gates, and Liminality in The Jealous Extremaduran, The Deceitful Marriage, and The Colloquy of the Dogs

5: Divine and Earthly Architecture in the Persiles

Overview: Ambiguous Architectures and Cosmological Design in the Persiles

Baroque Architecture and the Persiles

God as Divine Architect: The "fábrica bendita" of Creation

Astrological Houses and Cosmological Chaos: Ptolemaic and Copernican Structures in the Persiles

"Trazada de la ciudad de Dios": Earthly Architecture in the Persiles

6 : Epilogue: The House that Cervantes Built

Novel Foundations for Novel Texts

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN:

9780197901298

0197901298

9780197901281

019790128X

OCLC:

1591392885

Publisher Number:

CIPO000391852

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