Screen LibraryDon Quijote : a new translation, backgrounds and contexts, criticism /
Presents Burton Raffel's translation of "Don Quijote," the story of an idealistic country gentleman who sets out like the knights of old to search for adventure and right wrongs, and includes additional writings that provide a modern account of the novel's influence, and a select...
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W.W. Norton,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [1999] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English Spanish |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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A Norton critical edition
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| Summary: |
Presents Burton Raffel's translation of "Don Quijote," the story of an idealistic country gentleman who sets out like the knights of old to search for adventure and right wrongs, and includes additional writings that provide a modern account of the novel's influence, and a selection of fifteen critical assessments. |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 857 pages : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 857-858). |
| ISBN: |
9780393972818 039397281X |
| Index Number: | PQ6329 |
| CLC: | I551.074 |
| Call Number: | I551.074/C419 |
| Contents: | The text of Don Quijote -- Map: Spain at the end of the Sixteenth century -- Map: Cervantes' Andalusia -- Don Quijote -- Backgrounds and contexts: Fear of publishing from prologue to La Galatea -- Portrait of the artist as an old man, Prologue to Exemplary novels -- Cervantes's self-critique from Voyage of Parnassus -- Cervantes's last words from Prologue to Persiles and Sigismunda -- Sources and influences: From Arcadia / Jacopo Sannazaro -- From Amadis of Gaul (The penance on poor Cliff) / Garci Rodriguez -- From Orlando Furioso (Canto 23) / Ludovico Ariosto -- Prologue to the False Quijote / Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda -- Don Quijote across the centuries / Patricia Finch and John J. Allen -- Criticism: Foreword / Carlos Fuentes -- Cervantes: the play of the world / Harold Bloom -- Who was Dulcinea? / Javier Herrero -- Personal identity in Don Quijote / Anthony J. Cascardi -- Don Quixote as hero of the same / Michel Foucault -- Essays on selected episodes of Don Quixote: Cervantes's revolutionary prologue / Elias L. Rivers -- In Marcela's case / Ruth Anthony el Saffar -- Sex and the chain gang / Robert ter Horst -- Rescuing Dorotea / Edward Dudley -- Anselmo's eating disorder / Nicolas Wey-Gomez -- Cervantes's veiled woman / Maria Antonia Garces -- The Duke's theatre of sadism / Henry W. Sullivan -- Dreaming in the cave of Montesinos / Carroll B. Johnson -- Don Quixote's disappearing act -- Ficciones on Don Quijote; Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges. |