Cervantes' Architectures: The Dangers Outside

Cervantes' Architectures is the first book dedicated to architecture in Cervantes' prose fiction. At a time when...
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Author: Frederick a. de Armas
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Language: English
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Cervantes' Architectures: The Dangers Outside by de Armas, Frederick a.

Cervantes' Architectures: The Dangers Outside

€181,59

Cervantes' Architectures: The Dangers Outside

€181,59
Author: Frederick a. de Armas
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Frederick a. de Armas
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 04/15/2022
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.06w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781487542399

About the Author
de Armas, Frederick a.: - Frederick A. de Armas is a Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.

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