Cervantes's novel of modern times : a new reading of Don Quijote
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Cervantes's novel of modern times : a new reading of Don Quijote
Princeton University Press, c2003
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  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
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  Nara
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  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Offering a radical reading of "Don Quijote", this work argues that it is much greater than the sum of its famous parts, discovering a unified narrative and deliberate thematic design in a novel long taught as the very definition of the picaresque and as a rambling succession of individual episodes. David Quint shows how repeated motifs and verbal details link the episodes, often in surprising and unnoticed ways. "Don Quijote" emerges as a work that charts and reflects upon the historical transition from feudalism to the modern times of a moneyed, commercial society. In Part One of the novel, this change is measured in a shift in the nature of erotic desire, and we find Don Quijote torn between his love for Dulcinea and his hopes to wed for wealth and social advancement. In Part Two, Don Quijote himself changes from anarchic madman to a gentler, wiser hero - a member of a middle class in the making. Throughout, Cervantes meditates on the literary form that he is inventing as a response to modernity, questioning the movel's relationship to other genres and the place of heroism and imagination within stories of everyday life.
Table of Contents
PREFACE ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv DON QUIJOTE, PART ONE 1 ONE Cervantes's Method and Meaning 3 Interlace 3 Arms and Letters 7 Luscinda at the Window 15 The Two Loves of Don Quijote 17 TWO "Dulcinea" 22 Cardenio and Anselmo 25 Cardenio, Quijote, Amadis, Orlando 30 Camila and Marcela: What Is the Woman to Do?38 Happy Ending and Mystification 50 Love and Chivalry 53 THREE "Princess Micomicona" 57 Zoraida and the Princess 60 Modern Marriage 73 Social Mobility, Generic Mix 76 Coda:"Nuestra Senora" 86 DON QUIJOTE, PART TWO 91 FOUR The Gentler, Wiser Don Quijote 93 Structure 95 The Two Quijotes 100 Don Diego de Miranda and Don Quijote 107 Camacho and Basilio 115 A New Don Quijote 123 Preaching to the Bandits 128 FIVE Aristocrats 131 Cruel Readers 133 Courtiers versus Knights 143 Justice 152 Paying Up 158 NOTES 163 INDEX 189
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