Heroic Forms
Cervantes and the Literature of War
by Stephen Rupp
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Pub Date Oct 16 2014 | Archive Date Oct 15 2014
Description
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 Cervantes and the Literature of War, Stephen Rupp connects Cervantes’s complex and inventive approach to literary genre with 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.
STEPHEN RUPP is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto.
Advance Praise
“War is among the greatest and most enduring themes of literature, and yet very few studies have delved into its centrality to the oeuvre of Miguel de Cervantes. Now Stephen Rupp has brought his erudition and acuity to this important task in a learned and eye-opening examination of Cervantes’s relation to the long tradition of writing about war. In Heroic Forms, Rupp explores how Cervantes, a valiant soldier who had personally lived and suffered the ravages of war, used that experience to re-interpret the bellicose myths and illusions of the literary tradition, from epic and pastoral to romance and picaresque, in turn helping spark the innovations that would change the face of literature.”
William Egginton, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins University
“Heroic Forms is a compelling exploration of how new military technologies and tactics changed individuals and communities, and, in turn, transformed literary genres. Rupp scrutinizes how Cervantes worked in diverse literary forms to represent changes in siege- and galley warfare in the early modern era, at the same time as he considers how new tactics and weapons inspired the transformative literary experiments by Spain’s consummate soldier-writer. His nuanced analysis will intrigue and inspire Cervantes scholars and other Hispanists.”
Elizabeth Wright, Department of Romance Languages, University of Georgia
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| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781442649125 |
| PRICE | CA$60.00 (CAD) |
