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by Julio Baena (Author)
Julio Baena offers a new analysis of Cervantes's last and most controversial novel, Los trabajos de Persiles y Segismunda. Baena's particular focus on the first chapter of this allegorical text, which he sees as a microcosm of the entire novel, allows him to explore the correspondence between microcosm and macrocosm in Cervantes's allegorical text. Placing this work within the intellectual context of its era, Baena uses poststructuralist methodologies to develop the existential implications of Persiles's central cosmological metaphor.
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Los textos de estos pocos hombres y mujeres tienen en relacion al mio una copresencia que excede con mucho a la de las normales fuentes bibliograficas, a la que como contexto tienen normalmente, e incluso a la nocion corrientemente recibida de intertextualidad. Son, en verdad, co-textos, partes complementarias de un dialogo en un sentido cuasi-renacentista que quiero dar al termino.
Author Biography
Julio Baena is assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
