Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE: THE GENESIS OF THE PERSILES
6. CHAPTER I. The Critique and Purification of the Romance of Chivalry 11
7. CHAPTER II. Heliodorus and Literary Theory 49
8. PART TWO: CERVANTES AND THE CLASSICAL AESTHETIC
9. CHAPTER III. The Dialogue Between the Canon and Don Quixote 91
10. CHAPTER IV. The Narrator and His Audience The Liberation of the Imagination 131
11. PART THREE: CERVANTES AND THE CLASSICAL AESTHETIC
12. CHAPTER V. The Critical Examination of Literary Theory in the Persiles 169
13. CHAPTER VI. Periandro's Narration THE HERO AS POET 187
14. CHAPTER VII. Topics of the Marvelous THE GARDEN PARADISE 212
15. CHAPTER VIII. The Narrator of the Persiles 257
16. PART FOUR: THE CERVANTINE FIGURE OF THE POET
17. CHAPTER IX. The Cervantine Figure of the Poet: Impostor or God? 305
18. CONCLUSION 339
19. Bibliography 349
20. Index 361