Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Celestina and novelistic discourse
- 2 The prefatory material: the author's ambivalent intentions
- 3 Genre and the parody of courtly love
- 4 From parody to satire: clerical and estates satire
- 5 Verbal humour and the legacy of stagecraft
- 6 The rhetorical shift from comedy to tragedy: ironic foreshadowing and premonitions of death
- 7 Is Melibea a tragic figure?
- 8 Pleberio's lament, Cárcel de Amor, and the Corbacho
- 9 Conclusion: Rojas' ambivalence towards literature
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
List of illustrations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Celestina and novelistic discourse
- 2 The prefatory material: the author's ambivalent intentions
- 3 Genre and the parody of courtly love
- 4 From parody to satire: clerical and estates satire
- 5 Verbal humour and the legacy of stagecraft
- 6 The rhetorical shift from comedy to tragedy: ironic foreshadowing and premonitions of death
- 7 Is Melibea a tragic figure?
- 8 Pleberio's lament, Cárcel de Amor, and the Corbacho
- 9 Conclusion: Rojas' ambivalence towards literature
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989