Cervantes and Modernity
Title | Cervantes and Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Clifford Graf |
Publisher | Bucknell University Press |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780838756553 |
Graf argues that the doubts expressed by both historicists and postmodernists regarding the progressive nature of Don Quijote are exaggerated. Neither do interpretations that abstain from this debate by emphasizing authorial ambivalence or positioning the novel at a crossroads seem as responsible as they once did. Beyond these skeptical and neutral alternatives, there are key steps forward in Cervantes's worldview. These four essays detail Don Quijote's anticipations of many of the same ideas and values that drive today's multiculturalism, feminism, secularism, and materialism. An important thesis here is that the Enlightenment remains the best vantage point from which to appreciate the novel's relation to the discourses of such movements. Thus Voltaire's Candide (1759), Feijoo's Defensa de las mujeres (1726), and Hobbes' Leviathan (1651) are each shown to be logical extensions of some of Cervante's most fundamental propositions. Finally, this book will still be of interest to specialists immune to the ideological anxieties arising from debates over notions of modernity. Graf also explores the interrelated meaning of a number of Don Quijote's symbols, characters, and episodes, pinpoints several of the novel's most important classical and medieval sources, and unveils for us its first serious English reader.
Flaubert and Don Quijote
Title | Flaubert and Don Quijote PDF eBook |
Author | Soledad Fox |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2010-06-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1837642060 |
Tells the story of how Flaubert's admiration for Cervantes' Don Quijote unfolded, and how profoundly it shaped and influenced Flaubert's ambition and his approach to all his major works, beginning with his breakthrough novel "Madame Bovary".
Cervantes's Novel of Modern Times
Title | Cervantes's Novel of Modern Times PDF eBook |
Author | David Quint |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2018-06-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0691186464 |
This book offers a radically new reading of Don Quijote, understanding it as a whole much greater than the sum of its famous parts. David Quint discovers a unified narrative and deliberate thematic design in a novel long taught as the very definition of the picaresque and as a rambling succession of individual episodes. Quint shows how repeated motifs and verbal details link the episodes, often in surprising and heretofore unnoticed ways. Don Quijote emerges as a work that charts and reflects upon the historical transition from feudalism to the modern times of a moneyed, commercial society. In Part One of the novel, this change is measured in a shift in the nature of erotic desire, and we find Don Quijote torn between his love for Dulcinea and his hopes to wed for wealth and social advancement. In Part Two, Don Quijote himself changes from anarchic madman to a gentler, wiser hero--a member of a middle class in the making. Throughout, Cervantes meditates on the literary form that he is inventing as a response to modernity, questioning the novel's relationship to other genres and the place of heroism and imagination within stories of everyday life. A new and coherent guide through the maze-like structure of Don Quijote, this book invites readers to appreciate the perennial modernity of Cervantes's masterpiece---a novel that confronts times not so distant from our own.
Cervantes the Writer and Painter of Don Quijote
Title | Cervantes the Writer and Painter of Don Quijote PDF eBook |
Author | Helena Percas de Ponseti |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN |
Discusses Cervantes' point of view in Don Quixote, identifies the pictorial level of the novel, and describes similarities in his style to that of modern art.
Cervantes
Title | Cervantes PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Robbins |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2014-01-02 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1317984013 |
This volume commemorates the quatercentenary of Don Quijote (Part I, 1604-05), widely acknowledged to be the 'first modern novel'. Through Don Quijote, his Exemplary Novels and other major works, Cervantes, Spain's master novelist, has for centuries shaped and profoundly influenced the different literatures and cultures of numerous countries throughout the world. Containing chapters written in both English and Spanish by leading scholars worldwide, this book deals with topics as fundamental and diverse as contested discourses in Don Quijote, psychology and comic characters in Golden-Age literature, the title of Cervantes' master novel, and Cervantes, Shakespeare and the birth of metatheatre. A special issue of the journal Bulletin of Spanish Studies.
Don Quixote
Title | Don Quixote PDF eBook |
Author | Cervantes |
Publisher | Hackett Publishing |
Pages | 892 |
Release | 2009-03-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1603841156 |
James Montgomery's new translation of Don Quixote is the fourth already in the twenty-first century, and it stands with the best of them. It pays particular attention to what may be the hardest aspect of Cervantes's novel to render into English: the humorous passages, particularly those that feature a comic and original use of language. Cervantes would be proud. --Howard Mancing, Professor of Spanish, Purdue University and Vice President, Cervantes Society of America
Don Quixote
Title | Don Quixote PDF eBook |
Author | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
Publisher | Signet Book |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1957-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780451625120 |
Retells Cervantes' story of the adventures of an eccentric Spanish country gentleman and his companion who set out as a knight and squire of old to right wrongs and punish evil.