71
For a discussion of Cervantes' hypothetical narration see Maxime Chevalier, L'Arioste en Espagne (Bordeaux, 1966) pp. 471 ff. (N. from the A.)
72
An analogy can be drawn to the Cave of Montesinos episode. See Harry Sieber, «Literary Time in the 'Cueva de Montesinos'» MLN 86 (1971): 268-73. (N. from the A.)
73
Emile Benveniste, Problèmes de linguistique générale, vol. 1 (Paris: Gallimard, 1966) p. 238. (N. from the A.)
74
For the notion of mythic time in Don Quijote, see Mariano Ibérico Rodríguez, «El Retablo de Maese Pedro: Estudio sobre el sentimiento del tiempo en Don Quijote», Letras 45 (1955): 5-23. Ibérico Rodríguez's analysis recalls Mircea Eliade's discussion of the archaic sense of time in The Myth of Eternal Return. (N. from the A.)
75
This is precisely what Ariosto suggests in his lunar episode where St. John deconstructs epic history (OF. 35.25-30). (N. from the A.)
76
For the esthetic implications of this debate, see Alban Forcione, Cervantes, Aristotle, and the Persiles (Princeton, 1970) chapter 3. (N. from the A.)
77
A similar situation arises in chapter 32 of the first part
where the «cura» tries in
vain to prove the inferiority of romance fiction to «historia verdadera»
(392).
(N. from the A.)
78
For the affinity of narrative techniques in history and fiction see Paul Ricoeur, Time and Narrative, trans. Blarney and Pellauer, vol. 3 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988) 142-56 and passim. (N. from the A.)
79
See Chevalier, 476 ff. (N. from the A.)
80
For Renaissance historicism, see Donald Kelley, The Foundations of Modern Historical Scholarship (Columbia, 1970); David Quint, «'Alexander the Pig': Shakespeare on History and Poetry», Boundary 2 (Spring, 1982): 49-67; Anthony Grafton, «Renaissance Readers and Ancient Texts: Comments on Some Commentaries», Renaissance Quarterly 38 (1985): 615-49. (N. from the A.)