In Don Quixote, Cervantes describes Tirant lo Blanc as `the best book in the world'. A remarkable work of fiction, probably the finest to appear anywhere in Europe before Rabelais, it has recently become increasingly familiar to English readers. However, it is a problematic book to categorise: on the one hand, it is an exciting story of Tirant's military exploits and his love for the Princess Carmesina; on the other, it is an encyclopedic work treating many aspects of late fifteenth-century society in vivid detail.
The essays collected in this volume offer a variety of fresh interpretations. They cover a vast amount of material, from questions of authorship to close readings of particular episodes, bringing a varietyof new interpretations to bear.
ARTHUR TERRY is Emeritus Professor of Literature at the University of Essex.
Contributors: RAFAEL BELTRAN, JOSEP GUIA, THOMAS R. HART, ALBERT G. HAUF, JEREMY LAWRANCE, MONTSERRAT PIERA, JOSEP PUJOL, JESUS D. RODRIGUEZ VELASCO, MARIA JESUS RUBIERA Y MATA, ARTHUR TERRY, CURT WITTLIN
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Important volume. MLR
Details
First Published: 23 Dec 1999
13 Digit ISBN: 9781855660687
Pages: 152
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: Tamesis Books
Series: Monografías A
Subject:
Hispanic StudiesBIC Class: GTB
Details updated on 02 Sep 2010
Contents
- 1 Worlds in 'Tirant lo Blanc'
- 2 Comedy and Performance in 'Tirant lo Blanc'
- 3 'Poets and Historians' in 'Tirant lo Blanc': Joanot Martorell's Models and the Cultural Space of Chivalresque Fiction
- 4 'Tirant lo Blanc': Rehistoricizing the 'other' 'Reconquista'
- 5 'Tirant lo Blanc' and the Muslim World in the Fifteenth Century
- 6 The Eschatological Framework of Tirant's African Adventure
- 7 Language and Intimacy in 'Tirant lo Blanc'
- 8 Death in 'Tirant lo Blanc'
- 9 Concerning the Novel from 1490 'Tirant lo Blanc' (with Curt Wittlin)
- 10 Concerning the Novel from 1490 'Tirant lo Blanc' (with Josep Guia)
