Fighting windmills : encounters with Don Quixote / Manuel Durán, Fay R. Rogg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Durán, Manuel, 1925-2020

Contributor:

Rogg, Fay R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.

Physical Description:

x, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2006]

Summary:

Cervantes' "Don Quixote" is the most widely read masterpiece in world literature, as appealing to readers today as four hundred years ago. In "Fighting Windmills" Manuel Durá n and Fay R. Rogg offer a beautifully written excursion into Cervantes' great novel and trace its impact on writers and thinkers across centuries and continents. How did Cervantes write such a rich tale? Durá n and Rogg explore the details of Cervantes' life, the techniques with which he constructed the novel, and the central themes of the adventures of Don Quixote and his earthy squire Sancho Panza. The authors then provide an insightful, panoramic view of Cervantes' powerful influence on generations of writers as diverse as Descartes, Voltaire, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Twain, and Borges.

Contents:

Cervantes

Experimenting with existing narrative tools

Constructing Don Quixote

A look into Cervantes' masterpiece

Cervantine sallies into eighteenth-century France and England

An abbreviated look at Cervantes in nineteenth-century France, Russia, and Spain

Don Quixote and the New World : two American perspectives

Sightings of Cervantes and his knight in the twentieth century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-263) and index.

ISBN:

0300110227

OCLC:

62089912

Publisher Number:

9780300110227

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