Dorothy Sherman Severin

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Tragicomedy and Novelistic Discourse in "Celestina"

Dorothy Sherman Severin

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The late fifteenth-century Spanish masterpiece Celestina is one of the worlds most neglected classics. In this important study one of the most recent editors of the text, Dorothy Sherman Severin, investigates how Fernando de Rojas work in dialogue, which parodies earlier genres, is a precursor of the modern novel. In Celestina, Rojas parodies the courtly lover, classical examples and popular song, student's knowledge, wisdom literature and the lament. The novel also explores the fatal clash between two literary worlds, that of the self-stylized courtly lover (the fool) and the prototype picaresque world of the Spanish Bawd and her mentors (the rogues). Quotations from the text are accompanied by English translations, mainly from the seventeenth-century English version by James Mabbe.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2009, Softcover - 2005, Softcover - 1996, Hardcover - 1992, 1992, Softcover - 1990, 1981, 1979, 1976