A Critical Introduction to Don Quixote (Paperback)

L.A. Murillo

ISBN 10: 0820470937 / ISBN 13: 9780820470931

Published by Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2003

About this Item

Paperback. Designed as a 'reading guide', this book provides a three-tiered approach to the literary fabric of Cervantes' masterpiece: story, narrators, characters, style and structure. Its three major divisions - The Exemplary Story, The Quixotic Fiction, The Mythical Don Quixote, trace and analyze episode by episode the hero's transformation from a 'clinical' case of literary insanity and chivalric folly, through the artifice of interlocking fictions that sustain his rise to mock in Part I, to mythical status as redemptive hero of social satire in Part II. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Critical Introduction to Don Quixote (Paperback)
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820470937
• ISBN 13: 9780820470931
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Designed as a ‘reading guide’, this book provides a three-tiered approach to the literary fabric of Cervantes’ masterpiece: story, narrators, characters, style and structure. Its three major divisions―The Exemplary Story, The Quixotic Fiction, The Mythical Don Quixote, trace and analyze episode by episode the hero’s transformation from a ‘clinical’ case of literary insanity and chivalric folly, through the artifice of interlocking fictions that sustain his rise to mock in Part I, to mythical status as redemptive hero of social satire in Part II.

About the Author

L. A. Murillo is Professor of Spanish, Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley. A native of Pasadena, he served in the U.S. Army Air Force in 1943-1945, earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and his doctorate at Harvard University in 1953. Besides his publications as specialist in Spanish literature of the Golden Age and on Cervantes, he has published translations of Jorge Luis Borges and The Cyclical Night, a study of irony in James Joyce and Borges.