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A Companion to Don Quixote
Contributor(s): Close, Anthony (Author)

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ISBN: 1855662086     ISBN-13: 9781855662087
Publisher: Tamesis Books
OUR PRICE: $35.10  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2010
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese
- Literary Criticism | American - Hispanic American
- Literary Criticism | Renaissance
Dewey: 863.3
Series: Monografías a
Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (0.93 lbs) 296 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic
Features: Bibliography
 
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Publisher Description:
The purpose of this book is to help the English-speaking reader, with an interest in Spanish literature but without specialised knowledge of Cervantes, to understand his long and complex masterpiece: its major themes, its structure, and the inter-connections between its component parts. Beginning from a review of 'Don Quixote's' relation to Cervantes's life, literary career, and its social and cultural context, Anthony Close goes on to examine the structure and distinctive nature of Part I (1605) and Part II (1615), the conception of the characters of Don Quixote and Sancho, Cervantes's word-play and narrative manner, and the historical evolution of posterity's interpretation of the novel, with particular attention to its influence on the theory of the genre. One of the principal questions tackled is the paradoxical incongruity between Cervantes's conception of his novel as a light work of entertainment, without any explicitly acknowledged profundity, and posterity's view of it as a universally symbolic masterpiece, revolutionary in the context of its own time, and capable of meaning something new and different to each succeeding age. ANTHONY CLOSE, now retired, was Reader in Spanish at the University of Cambridge.
 
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