Reflections On The Hero As Quixote
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Reflections On The Hero As Quixote
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Author : Alexander Welsh
language : en
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1981
Reflections On The Hero As Quixote written by Alexander Welsh and has been published by Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Literary Criticism categories.
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Don Quixote Some War Time Reflections On Its Character And Influence
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Author : Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Don Quixote Some War Time Reflections On Its Character And Influence written by Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Humble Story Of Don Quixote
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Author : Cesáreo Bandera
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2006
The Humble Story Of Don Quixote written by Cesáreo Bandera and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this original study by Cesáreo Bandera, the intimate connection between the simplicity and humility of the story and its greatness is explored. Other comparisons are also made: the story of the picaresque rogue, on the one hand, and the psychological insights of the pastoral novel, on the other.
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.
Literary Narratives And The Cultural Imagination
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Author : María Odette Canivell Arzú
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2018-12-17
Literary Narratives And The Cultural Imagination written by María Odette Canivell Arzú and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Literary Narratives and the Cultural Imagination: King Arthur and Don Quixote as National Heroes the author examines traditional Arthurian and Cervantine literary narratives to discuss how the two literary figures became paladins of their respective nations. Whereas the former bestows upon the homeland a positive image of Britain, based on military might, a glorious past and a promise of return, the latter contributes to a negative image of Spain based on a narrative of defeat and faded glory. In the analysis of the political intentions behind the literature that gave wings to the rise as paragons of these very famous literary characters, a semblance of the national imaginaries of the countries of their birth appears. Indeed, the tradition of Waterloo and the tradition of La Mancha are polar opposites in their Weltanschauung, and they only have in common that both heroes, Arthur and Quijote, are depicted as paladins of justice, benefactors, and redeemers of their land of birth. It is this idealized view of what is possibly the figment of a writer’s (or many different writers) pen that astonishes the reader, for behind it lies an intention to market (for internal and external consumption) both literary creations, exceeding the boundaries of the creative fiction that invented them to transform them into myths and political symbols of their respective nations.
Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes
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Author : Harold Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes written by Harold Bloom and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Criticism categories.
The satirical story of the man from La Mancha has been popular for nearly 400 years.
Cervantes S Novel Of Modern Times
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Author : David Quint
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-05
Cervantes S Novel Of Modern Times written by David Quint and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
The Practice Of Quixotism
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Author : S. Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2006-11-13
The Practice Of Quixotism written by S. Gordon and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Using postmodern theory, The Practice of Quixotism explores eighteenth-century women's texts that use quixote narratives, which typically demand that individuals purge their minds of internalized fictions to insist instead that the reality we encounter is inevitably mediated by the texts we have read.
Freud S Paranoid Quest
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Author : John Farrell
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1996
Freud S Paranoid Quest written by John Farrell and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Psychology categories.
"(John) Farrell argues forcefully against Freud, but does something more important in the process: his reframing of the discussion of modernity has implications for every branch of contemporary humanistic inquiry, and makes this a timely and most significant book".--HARVARD REVIEW.
The Age Of Reasons
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Author : Wendy Motooka
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-13
The Age Of Reasons written by Wendy Motooka and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-13 with Business & Economics categories.
Wendy Motooka contends that 'the Age of Reason' was actually an Age of Reasons. Joining imaginative literature, moral philosophy, and the emerging discourse of the new science, she seeks to historicise the meaning of eighteenth-century 'reason' and its supposed opposites, quixotism and sentimentalism. Reading novels by the Fieldings, Lennox and Sterne alongside the works of Adam Smith, Motooka argues that the legacy of sentimentalism is the social sciences. This book raises our understanding of eighteenth-century British culture and its relation to the 'rational' culture of economics that is growing ever more prevasive today.