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Although best known the world over for his masterpiece novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha, published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, the antics of the would-be knight-errant and his simple squire only represent a fraction of the trials and tribulations, both in the literary world and in society at large...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English Spanish |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Although best known the world over for his masterpiece novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha, published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, the antics of the would-be knight-errant and his simple squire only represent a fraction of the trials and tribulations, both in the literary world and in society at large, of this complex man. Poet, playwright, soldier, slave, satirist, novelist, political commentator, and literary outsider, Cervantes achieved a minor miracle by becoming one of the rarest of things in the Early-Modern world of letters: an international best-seller during his lifetime, with his great novel being translated into multiple languages before his death in 1616. The principal objective of The Oxford Handbook of Cervantes is to create a resource in English that provides a fully comprehensive overview of the life, works, and influences of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616). This volume contains seven sections, exploring in depth Cervantes's life and how the trials, tribulations, and hardships endured influenced his writing. Cervantistas from numerous countries, including the United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland, the United States, Canada, and France offer their expertise with the most up-to-date research and interpretations to complete this wide-ranging, but detailed, compendium of a writer not known for much other than his famous novel outside of the Spanish-speaking world. Here we explore his famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha, his other prose works, his theatrical output, his poetry, his sources, influences, and contemporaries, and finally reception of his works over the last four hundred years. -- Publisher description. |
| Carrier Form: | xxvi, 694 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780198742913 0198742916 |
| Index Number: | PQ6337 |
| CLC: | I551.063-62 |
| Call Number: | I551.063-62/O984 |
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Dedication -- List of Cervantes's Works -- List of Contributors -- Note on Translations -- Introduction, Aaron M. Kahn -- BIOGRAPHY. Cervantes's Life / Cervantes and Warfare / Cervantes and Empire / Cervantes in Captivity / DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA. Don Quixote Part I (1605) / Don Quixote Part II (1615) / Quixote and Counter-Quixote: The Cervantes-Avellaneda Duel and Its Impact on the History of the Novel / Don Quixote de la Mancha's Narrative Structure within the Literary Tradition / Don Quixote: Humour in Philosophy and Philosophy in Humour / CERVANTES'S PROSE. 'para empresas ma?s altas y de mayor importancia': The rota Virgilii and the Orphic Poet in Miguel de Cervantes's La Galatea (1585) / Novelas ejemplares (1613) / Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda: historia setentrional (1617) / Cervantes and Madness / Cervantes and Genre / CERVANTES THE DRAMATIST. First Writings for the Stage (1580s): Pre-Lopean Success and Failures / Ocho comedias (1615) / The Ignominies of Persuasion in Cervantes's Entremeses (1615): An Overview of Cervantine Farce / Cervantes and the comedia nueva / Versification in Cervantes's Drama / CERVANTES'S POETRY AND OTHER WRITINGS. Cervantine Poetry: History and Context / Confessing on the Move: Viaje del Parnaso and 'Adjunta al Parnaso' (1614) / Attributions and Lost and Promised Works / |