Download or read book Poetics of Friendship in Early Modern Spain written by Gilbert-Santamaria Donald Gilbert-Santamaria and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friendship as a poetic principle in early modern Spanish literary worksDonald Gilbert-Santamara shows how the Aristotelian-Ciceronian notion of perfect male friendship operates as an independent poetic force within the development of Spanish literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He traces the trajectory for such a poetics through key prose and theatrical works culminating in an analysis of Don Quixote where friendship emerges as an important formal influence in Cervantes's novel. With chapters covering several important genres from the period including the pastoral novel and the comedia, the book explores the relationship between friendship and other key problems associated with literary representation in the period: subjectivity, exemplarity and imitatio, among others.