>From: Dominick Finello <[log in to unmask]> >To: "Lauer, A Robert" <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:28:52 -0500 > >Dear Prof. Lauer: >Kindly include in your infomail the publication of my book: >Thank you, >Dominick Finello >Brooklyn College, The City University of New York > >Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies >Arizona State University, P.O. Box 874402, Tempe, AZ 85287-4402 >Phone: (480) 965-5900 Fax: (480) 965-1681 > >The Evolution of the Pastoral Novel in Early Modern Spain >Dominick Finello >The Evolution of the Spanish Pastoral Novel in >Early Modern Spain recasts the role of the >pastoral novel in the intellectual life of the >Spain after the initial impact of the Dianas. >Spanish pastoral novels published from 1570 >onward are crucial in reconstructing Spain’s >intellectual history and modernity. Pastorals of >Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Gálvez de Montalvo, >Lofrasso, González de Bobadilla, Mercader, >Corral, Suárez de Figueroa, Balbuena, and >related eclogues and festival literature, will >show that the genre became more than a resource >for neoplatonic thinking and the idealization of >country life. Still to be discovered in its >entirety, the Spanish pastoral novel was a >springboard for literary academies and poetic >competitions renewing Castilian poetics for the >essential concerns of artistic reception, the >conception of innovative generic forms, the >power of the writer in a hierarchical society >and, ultimately, the novel’s bold new sense of literary self-consciousness. >(ISBN: 978-0-86698-401-0 / MR 353) > > Prof. A. Robert Lauer The University of Oklahoma Dept. of Modern Langs., Lits., & Ling. 780 Van Vleet Oval, Kaufman Hall, Room 206 Norman, Oklahoma 73019-2032, USA Tel.: 405/325-5845 (office); 405/325-6181 (OU dept.); Fax: 405/325-0103 (office) Vision: Harmonious collaboration in an international world. Mission: "Visualize clearly and communicate promptly" <http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/A-Robert.R.Lauer-1/vita.html>VITA / <http://www.peterlang.com/all/>IBÉRICA / <http://www.ou.edu/bcom/>BCom / <http://www.ou.edu/cervantes/coloquiocervantes.html>Coloquio <http://www.ou.edu/cervantes/coloquiocervantes.html>Cervantes / <http://www.ou.edu/teatro/coloquioteatro.html>Coloquio Teatro de los Siglos de Oro