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The Quixote Cult

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Author : Genaro Gonzàlez
language : en
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Release Date : 1998-10-30

The Quixote Cult written by Genaro Gonzàlez and has been published by Arte Publico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-10-30 with Fiction categories.

The late 1960s was a heady time to come to adulthood, even in deep South Texas. When the narrator of The Quixote Cult„known simply as De la O„begins college, he discovers a world of political activists, Vietnam veterans, small-time drug dealers, and academic opportunists unlike anything he and his friend Lucio ever experienced in the barrio. And the more he sees of the fighting between La Raza revolutionaries, union members, political bosses, and paramilitary protesters, the more De la O wonders if the preaching of Chicano brotherhood isnÍt simply the flowering of another crackpot cult. But as he encounters day-care radicals, tilts at institutional windmills, and learns about St. Che and other icons, De la O also meets such living wonders as the Jewish Aztec Princess and The Brown Barbie. The Quixote Cult confirms Genaro GonzàlezÍs reputation as a rambunctious, quirky writer whose characters, as The Nation wrote, ñcombust into their own living, full-colored realityî„even as they take on such important hippie-era questions as ñYou guys do bathe, donÍt you?î

The Quixote Cult

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Author : Genaro González
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998

The Quixote Cult written by Genaro González and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with College students categories.

A novel on the 1960s Chicano movement for social justice and equal rights in Texas. It features De la O, an idealistic leader who sees himself as something of a Don Quixote charging the Anglo windmills.

Quixote Cult

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Author : Genaro González
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017

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The late 1960s was a heady time to come to adulthood, even in deep South Texas. When the narrator of The Quixote Cult--known simply as De la O--begins college, he discovers a world of political activists, Vietnam veterans, small-time drug dealers, and academic opportunists unlike anything he and his friend Lucio ever experienced in the barrio. And the more he sees of the fighting between La Raza revolutionaries, union members, political bosses, and paramilitary protesters, the more De la O wonders if the preaching of Chicano brotherhood isn't simply the flowering of another crackpot cult. But as he encounters day-care radicals, tilts at institutional windmills, and learns about St. Che and other icons, De la O also meets such living wonders as the Jewish Aztec Princess and The Brown Barbie. The Quixote Cult confirms Genaro González's reputation as a rambunctious, quirky writer whose characters, as The Nation wrote, "combust into their own living, full-colored reality"--even as they take on such important hippie-era questions as "You guys do bathe, don't you?"

The Cult Of Don Quixote In The Generation Of 1898 1898 1920

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Author : Hannah E. Bergman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947

The Cult Of Don Quixote In The Generation Of 1898 1898 1920 written by Hannah E. Bergman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with Don Quixote (Fictitious character) categories.

The Sanctification Of Don Quixote

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Author : Eric Ziolkowski
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2008-01-18

The Sanctification Of Don Quixote written by Eric Ziolkowski and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-18 with Literary Criticism categories.

Ziolkowski explores the religious implications of the figure of Don Quixote in Western literature from Cervantes to the present.While scholars and critics in the past have often called attention to the secularizing tendency of modern literature, to the numerous fictional adaptations of the Christ figure on the one hand, and the innumerable literary descendants of Don Quixote on the other, this study is the first to examine a lineage of characters in whom the images of the alleged savior and the mad knight are combined.After considering Don Quixote as the first modern novel, and taking into account its relationship to religion, society, and censorship in seventeenth-century Spain, Ziolkowski traces the history and fate of Don Quixote, the character, through a series of religious transformations over the centuries, focusing on three novels that adapt the Quixote figure: Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews, Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot, and Graham Greene's Monsignor Quixote. Ziolkowski argues that, given the increased secularization and decline of religious consciousness over the last several centuries, any pursuit of religious values or ideas becomes questionable and this appears &"quixotic&" insofar as it stands in contradiction to the sociohistorical context. He concludes that religious existence, for the few who pursue it in suffering, which means that the religious person feels temporally displaced for adhering to a seemingly obsolete faith and lifestyle.

Approaches To Teaching Cervantes S Don Quixote

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Author : James A. Parr
language : en
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Release Date : 2015-06-01

Approaches To Teaching Cervantes S Don Quixote written by James A. Parr and has been published by Modern Language Association this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Cervantes's Don Quixote highlights dramatic changes in pedagogy and scholarship in the last thirty years: today, critics and teachers acknowledge that subject position, cultural identity, and political motivations afford multiple perspectives on the novel, and they examine both literary and sociohistorical contextualization with fresh eyes. Part 1, "Materials," contains information about editions of Don Quixote, a history and review of the English translations, and a survey of critical studies and Internet resources. In part 2, "Approaches," essays cover such topics as the Moors of Spain in Cervantes's time; using film and fine art to teach his novel; and how to incorporate psychoanalytic theory, satire, science and technology, gender, role-playing, and other topics and techniques in a range of twenty-first-century classroom settings.

Don Quixote And The Subversive Tradition Of Golden Age Spain

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Author : R. K. Britton
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2018-12-01

Don Quixote And The Subversive Tradition Of Golden Age Spain written by R. K. Britton and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.

This study offers a reading of Don Quixote, with comparative material from Golden Age history and Cervantes life, to argue that his greatest work was not just the hilariously comic entertainment that most of his contemporaries took it to be. Rather, it belongs to a subversive tradition of writing that grew up in sixteenth-century Spain and which constantly questioned the aims and standards of the imperial nation state that Counter-reformation Spain had become from the point of view of Renaissance humanism. Prime consideration needs to be given to the system of Spanish censorship at the time, run largely by the Inquisition albeit officially an institution of the crown, and its effect on the cultural life of the country. In response, writers of poetry and prose fiction -- strenuously attacked on moral grounds by sections of the clergy and the laity -- became adept at camouflaging heterodox ideas through rhetoric and imaginative invention. Ironically, Cervantes success in avoiding the attention of the censor by concealing his criticisms beneath irony and humour was so effective that even some twentieth-century scholars have maintained Don Quixote is a brilliantly funny book but no more. Bob Britton draws on recent critical and historical scholarship -- including ideas on cultural authority and studies on the way Cervantes addresses history, truth, writing, law and gender in Don Quixote -- and engages with the intellectual and moral issues that this much-loved writer engaged with. The summation and appraisal of these elements within the context of Golden Age censorship and the literary politics of the time make it essential reading for all those who are interested in or study the Spanish language and its literature.

Transnational Cervantes

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Author : William Childers
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2014-03-21

Transnational Cervantes written by William Childers and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-21 with Literary Criticism categories.

This ambitious work aims to utterly change the way Don Quixote and Cervantes' other works are read, particularly the posthumous The Trial of Persiles and Sigismunda. William Childers sets out to free Cervantes' work from its context within the histories of the European national literatures. Instead, he examines early modern Spanish cultural production as an antecedent to contemporary postcolonial literature, especially Latin American fiction of the past half century. In order to construct his new context for reading Cervantes, Childers proceeds in three distinct phases. First, Cervantes' relation to the Western literary canon is reconfigured, detaching him from the realist novel and associating him, instead, with magic realism. Second, Childers provides an innovative reading of The Trial of Persiles and Sigismunda as a transnational romance, exploring cultural boundaries and the hybridization of identities. Finally, Childers explores traces of and similarities to Cervantes in contemporary fiction. Theoretically eclectic and methodologically innovative, Transnational Cervantes opens up many avenues for research and debate, aiming to bring Cervantes' writings forward into the brave new world of our postcolonial age.

The History And Adventures Of The Renowned Don Quixote From The Span By T Smollett To Which Is Prefixed A Memoir Of The Author By T Roscoe Illustr By G Cruikshank

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Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1833

The History And Adventures Of The Renowned Don Quixote From The Span By T Smollett To Which Is Prefixed A Memoir Of The Author By T Roscoe Illustr By G Cruikshank written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1833 with categories.

Don Quixote His Critics And Commentators

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Author : Alexander James Duffield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881

Don Quixote His Critics And Commentators written by Alexander James Duffield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with categories.