Cervantes: Don Quixote
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- Author: Anthony J. Close, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: June 1990
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521313452
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Anthony Close's study places Don Quixote in the context of Cervantes' life and literary career, and in the book's cultural and social background. It focuses primarily on the central problems of Cervantine comedy, the use of burlesque, the presentation of characters through dialogue, the narrator's viewpoint, the virtuoso play with registers, and the complex and elusive irony. Using detailed analysis of individual passages, Dr Close shows how the moral themes of the novel are distilled in its humour, and in the characters of Don Quixote and Sancho. He also gives particular attention to the impact of this landmark text on the development of the European novel.
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- Date Published: June 1990
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521313452
- length: 148 pages
- dimensions: 205 x 128 x 8 mm
- weight: 0.177kg
- contains: 1 table
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Chronology
Preface
Part I. Don Quixote's Premises, Structure Themes, and Basic Burlesque Methods:
1. Critical approaches
background
Cervantes's motives
2. The basic burlesque formula
3. The narrator's persona
4. Empathetic parody
comic and satiric modes
5. Form of Part I
its episodes
6. Common nature
7. Form of Part II
its episodes
Part II. The Personalities of Quixote and Sancho:1. Development through conversation
2. Quixote's burlesque character
3. The Sanchification of Panza
4. Paradoxes of Part II
Quixote's disillusionment
5. Quixote and Dulcinea
Part III. Don Quixote as Landmark
Guide to further reading.
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