Cervantes' architectures the dangers outside / Frederick A. de Armas.
| Author/creator | De Armas, Frederick A., 1945- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2022] |
| Description | xii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Toronto Iberic ; 76 Toronto Iberic ; 76. ^A1121613 |
| Contents | Breaking Eurithmia -- Temples and Tombs: La Galatea -- Unstable Architectures: Don Quixote, Part 1 -- Windows: Don Quixote, Part 1 -- Grotesque: Vying with Vitruvius; Don Quixote, Part 2 -- Treacherous Architectures: Don Quixote, Part 2 -- A Windowless North: Persiles y Sigismunda, Books 1 and 2 -- Structures of Flight: Persiles y Sigismunda, Book 3 -- Roman Architectures: Persiles y Sigismunda, Book 4. |
| Abstract | "Cervantes' Architectures is the first book dedicated to architecture in Cervantes' prose fiction. At a time when a pandemic is sweeping the world, this book reflects on the danger outside by concentrating on the role of enclosed structures as places where humans may feel safe, or as sites of beauty and harmony that provide solace. At the same time, a number of the architectures in Cervantes trigger dread and claustrophobia as they display a kind of shapelessness and a haunting aura that blends with the narrative.This volume invites readers to discover hundreds of edifices that Cervantes built with the pen. Their variety is astounding. The narrators and characters in these novels tell of castles, fortifications, inns, mills, prisons, palaces, towers, and villas which appear in their routes or in their conversations, and which welcome them, amaze them, or entrap them. Cervantes may describe actual buildings such as the Pantheon in Rome, or he may imagine structures that metamorphose before our eyes, as we come to view one architecture within another, and within another, creating an abyss of space. They deeply affect the characters as they feel enclosed, liberated, or suspended or as they look upon such structures with dread, relief, or admiration.Cervantes' Architectures sheds light on how places and spaces are perceived through words and how impossible structures find support, paradoxically, in the literary architecture of the work."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic format. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023296041 |
| ISBN | 9781487542399 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1487542399 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |