Gabrielle Ponce's work revaluates the rise of the novel in late sixteenth-century Spain through the relationship between Lyric, Novel and Romance in the works of Miguel de Cervantes and his contemporaries.  While the discourse of modernity has frequently turned to subjectivity as one of its central features, the Pre-Cartesian formulations of subjectivity that emerged in the eroticized pastoral culture of the late sixteenth-century invite us to reconsider the ways in which human experience was conceptualized, expressed and narrated both on the grounds of subjectivity and intersubjectivity.  This work addresses questions of literary genre through a dialectic between the historical particulrities and the transhistorical forms of literary art, and takes special interest in the relationship between the mythic and the epistemic in histoical, philosophical and imaginative outlooks.  Her articles have appeared in the MLN and Romance Studies.