Cervantes' Don Quixote: A Casebook (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195169379)

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 Ram Men駭dez 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 Dur疣 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.

Author: Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
ISBN-10: 0195169379
ISBN-13: 9780195169379
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 04/28/2005
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.50w x 0.89d