Donald Gilbert-Santamaría explores how the Aristotelian–Ciceronian notion of perfect male friendship operates as a poetic force in early modern Spanish literature, tracing its trajectory through key prose and theatrical works and analyzing its influence in Cervantes' novel Don Quixote.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 248 pages
Publication date: 17 May 2022
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Friendship as a poetic principle in early modern Spanish literary works:
Donald Gilbert-Santamaría reveals how the Aristotelian-Ciceronian concept of perfect male friendship plays a significant role in the development of Spanish literature during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Through a meticulous examination of key prose and theatrical works, he traces the evolution of this poetic force, culminating in a comprehensive analysis of Don Quixote, where friendship emerges as a crucial formal influence in Cervantes' novel. The book delves into various genres of the period, including the pastoral novel and the comedia, exploring the intricate relationship between friendship and other central literary concerns of the time, such as subjectivity, exemplarity, and imitatio.

Friendship as a Poetic Principle in Early Modern Spanish Literary Works

Donald Gilbert-Santamaría's book explores how the Aristotelian-Ciceronian notion of perfect male friendship operates as an independent poetic force within the development of Spanish literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He traces the trajectory for such a poetics through key prose and theatrical works, culminating in an analysis of Don Quixote where friendship emerges as an important formal influence in Cervantes' novel. With chapters covering several important genres from the period, including the pastoral novel and the comedia, the book explores the relationship between friendship and other key problems associated with literary representation in the period: subjectivity, exemplarity and imitatio, among others.

Friendship as a Poetic Principle in Early Modern Spanish Literary Works

Donald Gilbert-Santamaría's book explores how the Aristotelian-Ciceronian notion of perfect male friendship operates as an independent poetic force within the development of Spanish literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He traces the trajectory for such a poetics through key prose and theatrical works, culminating in an analysis of Don Quixote where friendship emerges as an important formal influence in Cervantes' novel. With chapters covering several important genres from the period, including the pastoral novel and the comedia, the book explores the relationship between friendship and other key problems associated with literary representation in the period: subjectivity, exemplarity and imitatio, among others.

Friendship as a Poetic Principle in Early Modern Spanish Literary Works

Donald Gilbert-Santamaría's book explores how the Aristotelian-Ciceronian notion of perfect male friendship operates as an independent poetic force within the development of Spanish literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He traces the trajectory for such a poetics through key prose and theatrical works, culminating in an analysis of Don Quixote where friendship emerges as an important formal influence in Cervantes' novel. With chapters covering several important genres from the period, including the pastoral novel and the comedia, the book explores the relationship between friendship and other key problems associated with literary representation in the period: subjectivity, exemplarity and imitatio, among others.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474458054