{"product_id":"novel-foundations-katherine-l-brown-9780197901274","title":"Novel Foundations: Architecture and Literary Modernity in Cervantes' Prose Works","description":"\u003cem\u003eNovel Foundations: Architecture and Literary Modernity in Cervantes' Prose Works\u003c\/em\u003e is an interdisciplinary study of the narrative functions of architecture in Miguel de Cervantes' late prose fictions: \u003cem\u003eDon Quijote\u003c\/em\u003e (1605 and 1615), the \u003cem\u003eExemplary Novels \u003c\/em\u003e(1613), and \u003cem\u003eThe Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda\u003c\/em\u003e (1617). Drawing upon Renaissance architectural theory and practice, it considers the implications of Cervantes' insistent references to real and imagined architectural spaces and elements of urban design in his works. It examines Cervantes' appropriation of early modern Italian and Spanish architectural discourses, as well as his evocation and transformation of classical analogies that linked built spaces to cognition, human nature, rhetoric, and religion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy analysing Cervantes' descriptions of specific structures, landmarks, and architectural styles--as well as his representations of acts of building and architectural ruin--the book argues that Cervantes deploys architectural discourse to build novel literary worlds that bear upon issues of identity, reason, truth, perception, language, and the relationship between microcosm and macrocosm. In so doing, Cervantes lays the foundations for some of the modern novel's most pressing concerns, including the individual as literary subject, the nature of literary creation, and the representation of a world whose presumed solidity begins to crumble in the face of new scientific and aesthetic frameworks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katherine L. Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197901271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197901274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Katherine L. Brown","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48743079248127,"sku":"9780197901274","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/novel-foundations-katherine-l-brown-9780197901274","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}