Utopian Nexus in Don Quixote by Jehenson, Myriam Yvonne

Utopian Nexus in Don Quixote (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780826515186)

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Utopian Nexus in Don Quixote by Jehenson, Myriam Yvonne

Utopian Nexus in Don Quixote

$39.95
Utopian Nexus in Don Quixote by Jehenson, Myriam Yvonne

Utopian Nexus in Don Quixote

$39.95
Format: Paperback
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Jehenson and Dunn explore the mythic utopian desires that drive Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in Don Quixote. By tracing the discourses surrounding what they identify as a myth of abundance and a myth of "simple wants" throughout Spain and the rest of Europe at the time, Jehenson and Dunn are able to contextualize some of the stranger incidents in Don Quixote, including Camacho's wedding. They bring to the forefront three aspects of the novel: the cultural and juridical background of Don Quixote's utopian program for reviving the original property-less condition of the Age of Gold; the importance for Sancho Panza of the myths of Cockaigne and Jauja; and the author's progressive skepticism about utopian programs.

Author: Myriam Yvonne Jehenson
ISBN-10: 0826515185
ISBN-13: 9780826515186
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/10/2006
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.06w x 0.62d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2006 pg. 301
By Myriam Yvonne Jehenson
By Myriam Yvonne Jehenson
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Peter N. Dunn is the Hollis Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus, at Connecticut's Wesleyan University and the author of Castillo Solórzano and the Decline of the Spanish Novel, Fernando de Rojas, The Spanish Picaresque Novel, and Spanish Picaresque Fiction: A New Literary History.

Myriam Yvonne Jehenson is Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Hartford, Connecticut and the author of The Golden World of Pastoral: A Comparative Study of Sidney's Arcadias and d'Urfé's L'Astrée and Latin-American Women Writers: Class, Race, and Gender.

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