{"product_id":"adventures-in-paradox-charles-d-presberg-9780271023649","title":"Adventures in Paradox: Don Quixote and the Western Tradition","description":"\u003cp\u003eCervantes's \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e confronts us with a series of enigmas that, over the centuries, have divided even its most expert readers: Does the text pursue a serious or comic purpose? Does it promote the truth of history and the untruth of fiction, or the truth of poetry and the fictiveness of truth itself? In a book that will revise the way we read and debate \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e, Charles D. Presberg discusses the trope of paradox as a governing rhetorical strategy in this most canonical of Spanish literary texts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo situate Cervantes's masterpiece within the centuries-long praxis of paradoxical discourse in the West, Presberg surveys its tradition in Classical Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the European Renaissance. He outlines the development of paradoxy in the Spanish Renaissance, centering on works by Fernando de Rojas, Pero Mex?, and Antonio de Guevara. In his detailed reading of portions of \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e, Presberg shows how Cervantes's work enlarges the tradition of paradoxical discourse by imitating as well as transforming fictional and nonfictional models. He concludes that Cervantes's seriocomic \"system\" of paradoxy jointly parodies, celebrates, and urges us to ponder the agency of discourse in the continued refashioning of knowledge, history, culture, and personal identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis engaging book will be welcomed by literary scholars, Hispanisists, historians, and students of the history of rhetoric and poetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles D. Presberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271023643\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271023649\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.18h x 6.28w x 0.59d","brand":"Charles D. Presberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119498719487,"sku":"9780271023649","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_49731a7c-2500-4b7f-80f0-caaf4b5e8e8f.jpg?v=1687409660","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/adventures-in-paradox-charles-d-presberg-9780271023649","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}