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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969256703321

Titolo

Cervantes' Don Quixote : a casebook / / edited by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-19-772336-5

1-280-53442-7

9786610534425

1-4294-0028-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 281 p. : ill

Collana

Casebooks in criticism

Altri autori (Persone)

Gonzalez EchevarriaRoberto

Disciplina

863/.3

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-275) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cervantes' harassed and vagabond life / Manuel Duran -- The enchanted Dulcinea / Erich Auerbach -- The genesis of Don Quixote / Ramon Menendez Pidal -- Canons afire : libraries, books and bodies in Don Quixote's Spain / Georgina Dopico Black -- Literature and life in Don Quixote / E.C. Riley -- Don Quixote, story or history? / Bruce W. Wardropper -- Linguistic perspectivism in the Don Quixote / Leo Spitzer -- Don Quixote : crossed-eyes and vision / Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria -- The narrator in Don Quixote : Maese Pedro's puppet show / George Haley -- Self portraits : introduced by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria / Miguel de Cervantes.

Sommario/riassunto

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 Ramón Men'endez 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'an 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.