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This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world's greatest literary hero takes place in film, theater, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Howard Mancing and Slav N. Gratchev
Part I: Re-accentuation: Theoretical Introduction
Chapter I: On Re-accentuation, Adaptation, and Imitation of Don Quixote by Tatevik Gyulamiryan
Part II: Imagery and Ideology
Chapter 2: Don Quixote Re-depicted by Eduardo Urbina & Fernando González Moreno
Chapter 3: Don Quixote in the Rise of Modern Novel: The Satirical Interpretation by Emilio Martínez Mata
Chapter 4: Don Quixote and the Chivalric Ideal in Classics Illustrated Comics (1941-1971)
by Ricardo Castells
Chapter 5: A Horse of a Different Color: Salvador Dalí and the Re-imagining of Clavileño by S. Alleyn Smythe
Chapter 5: Image not Found: Portraiture, Identity, and the future of Cervantismo by Stephen Hessel
Part III: Literature
Chapter 6: Borges and the Hermeneutics of the Novel by J. A. Garrido Ardila
Chapter 7: World War and the Novel: Responding to Don Quixote in 1914 and 1934 by Rachel Schmidt
Chapter 8: The Don Quixotes of Science Fiction by Howard Mancing
Part IV: Film
Chapter 9: The Art of re-accentuation: Don Quixote by Grigori Kozintsev by Slav N. Gratchev
Chapter 10: Surviving the Hollywood Blacklist: Waldo Salt's adaptation of Don Quixote
by William Childers
Chapter 11: Crouching Squire, Hidden Madman: Ah Gan's Don Quixote and Postmodern China
by Bruce Burningham
Chapter 12: Amélie as Re-accentuation of Cervantes by Jonathan Wade
Chapter 13: Extracting the Essence of Don Quixote for a Puppet film by Steven Ritz-Barr
Part V: Theater and Television
Chapter 14: The Spanish Knight Among the Soviet People: Dramatic Re-accentuations of Don Quixote as a Doomed Performer by Margarita Marinova & Scott Pollard
Chapter 15: A Russian Lancelot and His Don Quixote by Victor Fet
Part VI: Don Quixote in The New World
Chapter 16: The Visionary's Quixote by Roy H. Williams
Bibliography
Index
About the Editors
About the author
Edited by Slav N. Gratchev and Howard Mancing - Contributions by J. A. Garrido Ardila; Bruce R. Burningham; Ricardo Castells; William Childers; Victor Fet; Tatevik Gyulamiryan; Stephen Hessel; Fernando González Moreno; Margarita Marinova; Emilio Martínez
