Critical Essays on Cervantes

Critical Essays on Cervantes
Author: Ruth S. El Saffar
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1986
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Critical essays about Miguel de Cervantes' work, including "Don Quixote".

The Art of Cervantes in Don Quixote

The Art of Cervantes in Don Quixote
Author: Stephen Boyd
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2019-09-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781781885055

Four centuries after his death in 1616, Cervantes's great novel (the first novel), Don Quixote (1605; 1615), continues to fascinate readers and generate debate about key questions. The ideas and approaches presented in this volume contribute to an understanding of Cervantes's art in Don Quixote that balances detail with synthesis.

Cervantes and Modernity

Cervantes and Modernity
Author: Eric Clifford Graf
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780838756553

Graf argues that the doubts expressed by both historicists and postmodernists regarding the progressive nature of Don Quijote are exaggerated. Neither do interpretations that abstain from this debate by emphasizing authorial ambivalence or positioning the novel at a crossroads seem as responsible as they once did. Beyond these skeptical and neutral alternatives, there are key steps forward in Cervantes's worldview. These four essays detail Don Quijote's anticipations of many of the same ideas and values that drive today's multiculturalism, feminism, secularism, and materialism. An important thesis here is that the Enlightenment remains the best vantage point from which to appreciate the novel's relation to the discourses of such movements. Thus Voltaire's Candide (1759), Feijoo's Defensa de las mujeres (1726), and Hobbes' Leviathan (1651) are each shown to be logical extensions of some of Cervante's most fundamental propositions. Finally, this book will still be of interest to specialists immune to the ideological anxieties arising from debates over notions of modernity. Graf also explores the interrelated meaning of a number of Don Quijote's symbols, characters, and episodes, pinpoints several of the novel's most important classical and medieval sources, and unveils for us its first serious English reader.

Stunned Into Being

Stunned Into Being
Author: Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson
Publisher: Wings Press (TX)
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2012
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0916727882

Lorna Dee Cervantes is a pivotal figure throughout the Chicano literary movement and this book gathers 30 years' worth of essays and articles about her as well as interviews with her. A fifth-generation Californian of Mexican and Native American (Chumasch) heritage, Cervantes is widely considered one of the most important Latina poets who drew tremendous power from her struggles in the literary and political trenches. This work explores the boundaries between language and experience and features a new collection of poems by the dynamic poet.

Millennial Cervantes

Millennial Cervantes
Author: Bruce R. Burningham
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-06-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1496217624

Millennial Cervantes explores some of the most important recent trends in Cervantes scholarship in the twenty-first century. It brings together leading Cervantes scholars of the United States in order to showcase their cutting-edge work within a cultural studies frame that encompasses everything from ekphrasis to philosophy, from sexuality to Cold War political satire, and from the culinary arts to the digital humanities. Millennial Cervantes is divided into three sets of essays—conceptually organized around thematic and methodological lines that move outward in a series of concentric circles. The first group, focused on the concept of “Cervantes in his original contexts,” features essays that bring new insights to these texts within the primary context of early modern Iberian culture. The second group, focused on the concept of “Cervantes in comparative contexts,” features essays that examine Cervantes’s works in conjunction with those of the English-speaking world, both seventeenth- and twentieth-century. The third group, focused on the concept of “Cervantes in wider cultural contexts,” examines Cervantes’s works—principally Don Quixote—as points of departure for other cultural products and wider intellectual debates. This collection articulates the state of Cervantes studies in the first two decades of the new millennium as we move further into a century that promises both unimagined technological advances and the concomitant cultural changes that will naturally adhere to this new technology, whatever it may be.

The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes

The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes
Author: Anthony J. Cascardi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2002-10-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521663873

Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605) is one of the classic texts of Western literature and the foundation of European fiction. Yet Cervantes himself remains an enigmatic figure. The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes offers a comprehensive treatment of Cervantes life and work, including his lesser known writing. The essays, by some of the most outstanding scholars in the field, cover the historical and political context of Cervantes writing, his place in Renaissance culture, and the role of his masterpiece, Don Quixote, in the formation of the modern novel. They draw on contemporary critical perspectives to shed new light on Cervantes work, including the Exemplary Novels , the plays and dramatic interludes, and the long romances, Galatea and Persiles. The volume provides useful supporting material for students; suggestions for further reading, a detailed chronology, a complete list of his published writings, an overview of translations and editions, and a guide to electronic resources.

Cervantes, Aristotle, and the Persiles

Cervantes, Aristotle, and the Persiles
Author: Alban K. Forcione
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2015-03-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1400868645

Any student of Cervantes' literary production must at some point take into account the theories that inspired the plan and creation of Los Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda for, of all Cervantes' works, it is the one most directly related to the author's awareness of literary theory. This volume, in attempting to clarify the Persiles, traces the major influences reflected in the Renaissance literary theories which inspired it, examines Cervantes' ambivalent attitude toward those theories as revealed in his works, and provides a close examination of the structure of the Persiles. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Quixotic Desire

Quixotic Desire
Author: Ruth Anthony El Saffar
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2019-06-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1501734202

In this venturesome collection, scholars representing a variety of approaches contribute fifteen essays that shed new light not only on the uses of psychoanalysis for reading Cervantes, but also on the relationship between Freud's reading of Cervantes in the summer of 1883 and the very foundation of psychoanalytic paradigms.

Cervantes and His Postmodern Constituencies

Cervantes and His Postmodern Constituencies
Author: Anne J. Cruz
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780815332060

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.