Cervantes' Don Quixote - A Casebook

Zusatztext ... a very nice collection of essays to serve as an introduction to Cervantes criticism...Seven of the nine essays are among the greatest pieces ever written about the novel. Klappentext 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 Ramon Menendez 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 Duran 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. Zusammenfassung 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 Menéndez 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 Durán 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.

Product details

• Authors: Roberto Gonzalez (EDT)/ Gonzalez Echev Echevarria
• Assisted by: Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria (Editor), Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria (Editor), Roberto (Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature Gonzalez Echevarria (Editor), Roberto González Echevarría (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.2005
• EAN: 9780195169379
• ISBN: 978-0-19-516937-9
• No. of pages: 281
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Casebooks in Criticism; Casebooks in Criticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Spanish, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form