The principal work on Cervantes' theory continues to be E. C. Riley's Cervantes's Theory of the Novel (Oxford: Clarendon, 1962). More recent attempts to codify his pronouncements are Helena Percas de Ponseti's Cervantes y su concepto del arte (Madrid: Gredos, 1975); and Anthony Close's «Cervantes' Arte Nuevo de Hazer Fábulas Cómicas en este Tiempo», Cervantes, 2 (1982), 3-22. (N. from the A.)

Philosophia antigua poética, ed. Alfredo Carballo Picazo (Madrid: C.S.I.C., 1973), 3 vols. All future references appear in the text. On Cervantes and El Pinciano, see Forcione, Riley, and the carefully documented study of Jean Canavaggio, «Alonso López Pinciano y la estética literaria cervantina en el Quijote», ACerv, 7 (1958), 13-107. (N. from the A.)

The anatomical metaphors of El Pinciano deserve a study of their own; I devote to them a chapter of my book on Cervantes' portraits. (N. from the A.)

Specifically Spanish sources for the myth of Vulcan include Fernando de Herrera's Anotaciones, published by Antonio Gallego Morell in Garcilaso de la Vega y sus comentaristas (Granada, 1966); and Juan Pérez de Moya, Filosofía secreta, ed. Eduardo Gómez de Baquero (Madrid, 1928). (N. from the A.)

Cf. Jean Canavaggio, «La dimensión autobiográfica...», p. 37. (N. from the A.)

Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Towards Androgyny: Aspects of Male and Female in Literature (New York: Norton, 1973). See also, in this tradition, Janet Sydney Kaplan's Feminine Consciousness in the Modern British Novel (1975); Elaine Showalter's A Literature of Their Own (1977); Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic (1979); and Nina Auerbach's Woman and the Demon (1982). (N. from the A.)

Nancy K. Miller argues that La Princesse de Clèves (1678) has been similarly «discredited» -excluded from the canon for being an «extravagant» work (See «Emphasis Added: Plots and Possibilities in Women's Fiction», PMLA, 96 [1981], 36-48). I use the word «anti-conventional» here in Hayden V. White's sense of the more powerful threat to «the mystique of the canon», the «unconventional», which can be «actively ignored», being the other («The Institutions of Literary Study», Special Forum, RMMLA Convention, Salt Lake City, 22 Oct. 1982). (N. from the A.)

Northrop Frye, The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1976), p. 81. Italics mine. (N. from the A.)

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda (Buenos Aires: Espasa-Calpe, 1952). I prefer -and use exclusively in this essay- the Juan Bautista Avalle-Arce edition of the Persiles (Madrid: Clásicos Castalia, 1969). English readers must content themselves with Louisa Dorothea Stanley's translation, The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda (London: Joseph Cundall, 1854). (N. from the A.)

Avalle-Arce, «Introducción», Persiles, pp. 23-24. (N. from the A.)