Anthony Close

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A Companion to Don QuixotePaperback, 18 March 2010

A Companion to Don Quixote
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Print Length
296 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Tamesis Books
Date Published
18 Mar 2010
ISBN-10
1855662086
ISBN-13
9781855662087

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An introduction to Cervantes's complex masterpiece.

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 ofentertainment, 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.

Product Details

Author:
Anthony Close
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
18 March 2010
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 1.57 cm
ISBN-10:
1855662086
ISBN-13:
9781855662087
Language:
English
Location:
Woodbridge
Pages:
296
Publisher:
Weight:
421.84 gm

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