期刊名称:Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
印刷版ISSN:0277-6995
出版年度:2008
卷号:XXVIII
期号:02
出版社:Cervantes Society of America
摘要:Cervantes’ Viaje del Parnaso (1614) towers as an elaborately
conceived work that serves as a compelling and fascinating mirror
of the literature, society, and politics of his time. A veritable
hybrid in which numerous literary models and genres are interwoven
into the textual fabric of satire, the Viaje presents an inexhaustible source
of seemingly endless interpretations.1 While Cervantes never wrote a
formal poetics or a conventional epic, he did write a mock epic in which
he disperses literary reflections on the poetry of his day, particularly on
what may have seemed to him to be the monopoly of degraded poetry
in the elitist circles of the Spanish academies, or poets’ societies.2 Yet