101

René Girard, Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World, trans. Stephen Bann and Michael Metteer (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987), p. 431. Future references will be inserted parenthetically. (N. from the A.)

102

This is a paper from a symposium on Los Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, as is explained in the Foreword of this issue of the journal. (N. from the E.)

103

See Virgil B. Heltzel, Fair Rosamond: A Study of the Development of a Literary Theme (Evanston: Northwestern U Studies, 1947). Heltzel discusses in detail the creation of the Rosamond legend and its abundant treatment in English literature. (N. from the A.)

104

For more on the exemplary aspects of Persiles, see Alban K. Forcione, Cervantes' Christian Romance (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1972). And for a more general study of the conventions and themes of romance fiction, see Northrop Frye, The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance (Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard UP 1976). (N. from the A.)

105

Forcione 121. (N. from the A.)

106

Miguel de Cervantes, Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, ed. J. B. Avalle-Arce (Madrid: Castalia, 1969) 118. All subsequent page references to the Persiles are to this edition. (N. from the A.)

107

Forcione 121. (N. from the A.)

108

See Forcione' s Cervantes and the Mystery of Lawlessness: A Study of «El casamiento engañoso y El coloquio de los perros» (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1984) 202, note 24. (N. from the A.)

109

As Heltzel states: «One is inclined to surmise that her beauty and her position as the unfortunate victim of a royal lover have somehow given her a sort of sanctity and inviolability in the eyes of all writers who have told her story» (127). (N. from the A.)

110

Forcione, Christian Romance 121-22. (N. from the A.)