From La Galatea Through the Quijotes: the Historicization of the Pastoral in Cervantes
FROM LA GALATEA THROUGH THE QUIJOTES: THE HISTORICIZATION OF THE PASTORAL IN CERVANTES by Paula Ann Kellar BS, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1969 MA, Kutztown University, 1980 Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Pittsburgh 1999 FROM LA GALATEA THROUGH THE QUIJOTES: THE HISTORICIZATION OF THE PASTORAL IN CERVANTES Paula Ann Kellar, PhD University of Pittsburgh, 1999 Cervantes ends La Galatea (1585) promising a sequel, a promise he repeats several times during his literary career. Yet no sequel was produced or apparently contemplated, suggesting that Cervantes intended his promise as a way of teasing the readers. This dissertation argues that Quijote I and II (1605, 1615) should be considered as the missing sequel to La Galatea. Its hypothesis is that at the core of the pastoral mode of La Galatea is a situation of impossible love - the Elicio, Galatea story - with its internal drama of love versus arranged marriage, unresolved in the text of La Galatea. This situation, with other stories, dramatic situations, even characters of La Galatea, are revisited in the two Quijotes, forming in retrospect a kind of narrative trilogy. Chapter 1 focuses on La Galatea, showing the historization and subversion of the model of the Renaissance pastoral novel inherited from Montemayor, introducing tensions and problems that cannot be contained within the model and narrative conventions of pastoral. Chapter 2 considers the little-known “Entremés de los Romances”, showing it as an interim work between La Galatea and the Quijotes; Cervantes reworks the open-ended situations of La Galatea and begins to suggest the properly “chivalric” inventions in the ii Quijotes.
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