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Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer’s Cervantes the Poet offers a groundbreaking reassessment of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quijote, positioning it as a work fundamentally shaped by poetic innovation rather than prose convention alone. The study demonstrates how Cervantes’ sophisticated understanding of poetry and poetic language transformed the emerging novel form, establishing new possibilities for narrative expression.
By analyzing the intricate relationship between poetic practice and novelistic structure, Ponce-Hegenauer reveals how Don Quijote transcends genre boundaries to create something entirely new in literature. The book explores how Cervantes’ conscious deployment of poetic devices, linguistic play, and metapoetic reflection contributed to the work’s revolutionary status. This approach challenges conventional literary criticism and provides fresh insights into why Don Quijote is recognized as the first modern novel.
Essential reading for scholars of early modern literature, literary theory, and the history of the novel form.
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