Heroic Forms

Cervantes and the Literature of War

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, European, Spanish & Portuguese, Nonfiction, History, Renaissance
Cover of the book Heroic Forms by Stephen Rupp, University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
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Author: Stephen Rupp ISBN: 9781442619517
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Publication: September 24, 2014
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Stephen Rupp
ISBN: 9781442619517
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Publication: September 24, 2014
Imprint:
Language: English

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 Heroic Forms, Stephen Rupp connects Cervantes’s complex and inventive approach to literary genre and 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.

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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 Heroic Forms, Stephen Rupp connects Cervantes’s complex and inventive approach to literary genre and 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.

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