Heroic forms : Cervantes and the literature of war PDF
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HEROIC FORMS This page intentionally left blank Heroic Forms Cervantes and the Literature of War STEPHEN RUPP UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London ©University of Toronto Press 2014 Toronto Buffalo London www.utppublishing.com Printed in the U.S.A. ISBN 978-1-4426-4912-5 (cloth) Printed on acid-free, 100% post-consumer recycled paper with vegetable-based inks. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Rupp, Stephen James, author Heroic forms : Cervantes and the literature of war / Stephen Rupp. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4426-4912-5 (bound) 1. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547–1616 – Criticism and interpretation. 2. War and literature – Spain – History – 16th century. 3. War in literature. I. Title. PQ6348.A3R86 2014 863'.3 C2014-902566-1 University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for its publishing activities. To the memory of James Arthur McGeer (1892–1962) Ada Mary McGeer Rupp (1915–99) This page intentionally left blank The Classics, it is the Classics! & not Goths nor Monks, that Desolate Europe with Wars. William Blake, On Homers Poetry (ca 1822) This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments xi Note on Texts and Translations xv Introduction 3 1 Warriors: Epic and Tragedy 31 2 Defenders: Pastoral and Satire 63 3 Captains and Saints: Lyric and Romance 100 4 Soldiers and Sinners: Picaresque 149 Conclusion 195 Notes 203 Works Cited 233 Index 245
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