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Allegories of Love: Cervantes's Persiles and Sigismunda
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Allegories of Love: Cervantes's Persiles and Sigismunda
Contributors:
By (Author) Diana de Armas Wilson
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
863.3
Prizes:
Short-listed for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1991
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
282
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
397g
Description
In the work he considered his masterpiece, Persiles and Sigismunda, Cervantes finally explores the reality of woman--an abstraction largely idealized in his earlier writing. Traditional critics have perpetuated this disembodied ideal woman: "Every Man," claimed the translators of the 1706 Don Quixote, has "some darling Dulcinea of his Thoughts." As
Reviews
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991
