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Imagining Arcadia in Renaissance Romance (Hardcover)
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Imagining Arcadia in Renaissance Romance (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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From Theocritus' Idylls to James Cameron's Avatar, Arcadia remains
an enduring presence in world culture and a persistent source of
creative inspiration. Why does Arcadia still exercise such a
powerful pull on the imagination? This book responds by arguing
that in sixteenth-century Europe, a dramatic shift took place in
imagining Arcadia. The traditional visions of Arcadia collided and
fused with romance, the new experimental form of prose fiction,
producing a hybrid, dynamic world of change and transformation.
Emphasizing matters of fictional function and world-making over
generic classification, Imagining Arcadia in Renaissance Romance
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. This book addresses
the under-representation of Spanish literature in Early Modern
literary histories, especially regarding the rich Spanish
contribution to the pastoral and to idealizing fiction in the West.
Companion chapters on Cervantes and Sidney add to the growing field
of Anglo-Spanish comparative literary studies, while the book's
comparative and transnational approach extends discussion of the
pastoral beyond the boundaries of national literary traditions.
This book's innovative approach to these fictional worlds sheds new
light on Arcadia's enduring presence in the collective imagination
today.
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