Doctrinal discourse vs. narrative praxis in Cervantes’ “La Galatea”

Authors

  • Flavia Gherardi University of Naples Federico II

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i4.7498

Keywords:

pastoral novel, Cervantes, La Galatea, philographic doctrine

Abstract

The article aims at to deepen into the relationships between La Galatea, a pastoral novel and “obra primeriza” by Miguel de Cervantes, and the Renaissance philographic doctrine, beyond what was indicated and reconstructed by previous critical studies about the intertextuality and use of the philosophical treatises and dialogues on love. More specifically, the study emphasizes a phenomenon that seems to be unique to Cervantes’ pastoral work: the contrast between the ideas and theories verbally advocated by the characters in the work, in terms of programmatic vision, and their concrete behaviour, when they have to face their own condition of lovers and react to its effects. A divergence that makes the reading of the work from the doctrinal and ideological perspective absolutely problematic, a very evident feature especially in what the text proposes regarding the possible (or not) liberation of love passion.

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Author Biography

Flavia Gherardi, University of Naples Federico II

Flavia Gherardi is Associate Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Naples Federico II. She mainly deals with Golden Age Literature. She published a study entitled “Un cuerpo parecemos y una vida”. Doppie identità nella narrativa spagnola dei Secoli d’Oro (Pisa, ETS, 2007); she collaborated on the edition and study of La Galatea by Miguel de Cervantes published in the Biblioteca Clásica series of the Real Academia Española (2014) and in 2018 she published the critical edition, with relative study, of the Segunda parte de la Diana (1563) by Alonso Pérez, first sequel of Los seis libros de la Diana by Jorge de Montemayor. She has produced several articles and essays relating to the forms, genres and themes characteristic of fiction and sixteenth-seventeenth-century “de ideas” prose; moreover, she is interested in the influences that the Neapolitan writers active at the court of the Neapolitan Viceroyalty exerted on Spanish literature in the first half of the seventeenth century (among others, she produced studies on Salcedo Coronel and Suárez de Figueroa). In recent years, she also has been studying seventeenth-century poetry in both lyric-love and moral and satirical fields, with particular regard to the production of Francisco de Quevedo and Juan de Tassis, Conde de Villamediana.

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Published

2020-12-21

How to Cite

Gherardi, F. (2020). Doctrinal discourse vs. narrative praxis in Cervantes’ “La Galatea”. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (4), 527–548. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i4.7498

Issue

No. 4 (2020): The representation of the Cold war in literature and the arts (1947-1989)

Section

Monographic section II

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