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2) Cervantes
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In this important book, P.E. Russell interprets Don Quixote as a parody of chivalric romance that rapidly outgrew the traditional limits of parody. He discusses the madness of Don Quixote, the folly of Sancho Panza, the types of comic technique employed in the book, and the invalid reinterpretation of the work as a fundamentally tragic tale.
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"It's a critical cliché that Cervantes' Don Quixote is the first modern novel, but this distinction raises two fundamental questions. First, how does one define a novel? And second, what is the relationship between this genre and understandings of modernity? In Forms of Modernity, Rachel Schmidt examines how seminal theorists and philosophers have wrestled with the status of Cervantes' masterpiece as an 'exemplary novel', in turn contributing to...
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"What is the role of literature in the formation of the state? Anthony J. Cascardi takes up this fundamental question in Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics, a comprehensive analysis of the presence of politics in Don Quixote. Cascardi argues that when public speech is constrained, as it was in seventeenth-century Spain, politics must be addressed indirectly, including through comedy, myth, and travellers' tales. Cervantes, Literature,...
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