Quixote: The Novel and the World

Quixote: The Novel and the World
Title Quixote: The Novel and the World PDF eBook
Author Ilan Stavans
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 202
Release 2015-09-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0393248380

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A groundbreaking cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated, and most imitated novel in the world. The year 2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha—an ageless masterpiece that has proven unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired to turn Emma Bovary into “a knight in skirts.” Freud studied Quixote’s psyche. Mark Twain was fascinated by it, as were Kafka, Picasso, Nabokov, Borges, and Orson Welles. The novel has spawned ballets and operas, poems and plays, movies and video games, and even shapes the identities of entire nations. Spain uses it as a sort of constitution and travel guide; and the Americas were conquered, then sought their independence, with the knight as a role model. In Quixote, Ilan Stavans, one of today’s preeminent cultural commentators, explores these many manifestations. Training his eye on the tumultuous struggle between logic and dreams, he reveals the ways in which a work of literature is a living thing that influences and is influenced by the world around it.

Don Quixote

Don Quixote
Title Don Quixote PDF eBook
Author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher
Pages 274
Release 1901
Genre
ISBN

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Tales of Don Quixote

Tales of Don Quixote
Title Tales of Don Quixote PDF eBook
Author Barbara Nichol
Publisher Tundra Books
Pages 208
Release 2006
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0887767443

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A retelling of the exploits of an idealistic Spanish country gentleman and his shrewd squire who set out, as knights of old, to search for adventure, right wrongs, and punish evil.

Don Quixote

Don Quixote
Title Don Quixote PDF eBook
Author Carroll B. Johnson
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2000
Genre
ISBN 9781577661481

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Written in an easy-to-read, accessible style by teachers with years of classroom experience, Masterwork Studies are guides to the literary works most frequently studied in high school. Presenting ideas that spark imaginations, these books help students to gain background knowledge on great literature useful for papers and exams. The goal of each study is to encourage creative thinking by presenting engaging information about each work and its author. This approach allows students to arrive at sound analyses of their own, based on in-depth studies of popular literature.Each volume: -- Illuminates themes and concepts of a classic text-- Uses clear, conversational language-- Is an accessible, manageable length from 140 to 170 pages-- Includes a chronology of the author's life and era-- Provides an overview of the historical context-- Offers a summary of its critical reception-- Lists primary and secondary sources and index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Don Quixote of La Mancha

Don Quixote of La Mancha
Title Don Quixote of La Mancha PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Penn State University Press
Pages 0
Release 2018
Genre Knights and knighthood
ISBN 9780271082318

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"An adaptation, in graphic novel format, of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes"--Provided by publisher.

The Man Who Invented Fiction

The Man Who Invented Fiction
Title The Man Who Invented Fiction PDF eBook
Author William Egginton
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 289
Release 2016-06-16
Genre History
ISBN 1408843862

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'In 1605 a crippled, greying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the most widely read author in human history. Cervantes did more than just publish a bestseller, though. He invented a way of writing.' In Cervantes' time, 'fiction' was synonymous with a lie. Books were either history, and true, or 'poetry' which might be invented, but had to conform to strict principles. Don Quixote tells the story of a poor nobleman, addled from reading too many books on chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off to put the world to rights. The book was hugely entertaining, broke the existing rules, devised a new set and, in the process, created a new, modern hybrid form we know today as the novel. The Man Who Invented Fiction explores Cervantes's life and the world he lived in, showing how his life and influences converged in his work, and how his work – especially Don Quixote – radically changed the nature of literature and created a new way of viewing the world. Finally, it explains how that worldview went on to infiltrate art, politics and science, and how the world today would be unthinkable without it.

Cervantes' Don Quixote

Cervantes' Don Quixote
Title Cervantes' Don Quixote PDF eBook
Author Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 302
Release 2010-04-10
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0199960461

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This casebook gathers a collection of ambitious essays about both parts of the novel (1605 and 1615) and also provides a general introduction and a bibliography. The essays range from Ram?n Men?ndez Pidal's seminal study of how Cervantes dealt with chivalric literature to Erich Auerbachs polemical study of Don Quixote as essentially a comic book by studying its mixture of styles, and include Leo Spitzer's masterful probe into the essential ambiguity of the novel through minute linguistic analysis of Cervantes' prose. The book includes pieces by other major Cervantes scholars, such as Manuel Dur?n and Edward C. Riley, as well as younger scholars like Georgina Dopico Black. All these essays ultimately seek to discover that which is peculiarly Cervantean in Don Quixote and why it is considered to be the first modern novel.