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Imagining Arcadia in Renaissance Romance
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This book analyzes the role of romance as a catalyst in remaking Arcadia in five, canonical sixteenth-century texts: Sannazaro's Arcadia; Montemayor's La Diana; Cervantes' La Galatea; Sidney's Arcadia; and Lope de Vega's Arcadia. Collins' analyses of the re-imagined Arcadia in these works elucidate the interplay between timely incursions into the fictional world and the timelessness of art, highlighting issues of freedom, identity formation, subjectivity and self-fashioning, the intersection of public and private activity, and the fascination with mortality.
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- ISBN-13: 9781138900684
- ISBN-10: 1138900680
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: April 2016
- Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.15 pounds
- Page Count: 286
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