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Rupp, Stephen

 
9781487522544: Heroic Forms: Cervantes and the Literature of War (Toronto Iberic)
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ISBN 10: 1487522541 ISBN 13: 9781487522544
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2017

Synopsis

Before he was a writer, Miguel de Cervantes was a soldier. Enlisting in the Spanish infantry in 1570, he fought at the battle of Lepanto, was seized at sea and held captive by Algerian corsairs, and returned to Spain with a deep knowledge of military life. He understood the costs of heroism, the fragility of fame, and the power of the military culture of brotherhood.

In Heroic Forms, Stephen Rupp connects Cervantes’s complex and inventive approach to literary genre and his many representations of early modern warfare. Examining Cervantes’s plays and poetry as well as his prose, Rupp demonstrates how Cervantes’s works express his perceptions of military life and how Cervantes interpreted the experience of war through the genres of the era: epic, tragedy, pastoral, romance, and picaresque fiction.

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About the Author

Stephen Rupp is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto.

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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1487522541
ISBN 13 
9781487522544
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
270