E Michael Gerli

Celestina and the Ends of Desire

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Produktbeschreibung

In 'Celestina' and the Ends of Desire, E. Michael Gerli illustrates how Fernando de Rojas' 1499 novel straddles the medieval and the modern in its exploration of changing categories of human desire - from the European courtly love tradition to the interpretation of want as an insatiable, destructive force.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781442642553
• ISBN-10: 1442642556
• Artikelnr.: 32900228

Autorenporträt

E. Michael Gerli is Commonwealth Professor of Hispanic and Early Modern Studies at the University of Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Chain of Desire: Linking Language and Longing
2. Celestina, Mistress of Desire
3. Calisto’s Hunt: The Pursuit of Carnal Knowledge
4. Yearning to Look: Desire and the Pleasure of the Gaze
5. Complicitous Laughter: The Sounds of Desire
6. Melibea Speaks: Language and Feminine Desire
7. The Desire to Belong and the Body Politic
8. Precints of Contention: Locating Desire and Ideology in Celestina
9. Pleberio and the Ends of Desire
Notes
Works Cited
Index