Cervantes' Don Quixote : a casebook / edited by Roberto González Echevarría.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

González Echevarría, Roberto, editor.

Series:

Casebooks in criticism.

Oxford scholarship online.

Casebooks in criticism

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.

Physical Description:

xiv, 281 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-772336-5

1-280-53442-7

9786610534425

1-4294-0028-5

OCLC:

1410954874