Adventures in Paradox : : Don Quixote and the Western Tradition / / Charles D. Presberg.
Cervantes's Don Quixote confronts us with a series of enigmas that, over the centuries, have divided even its most expert readers: Does the text pursue a serious or comic purpose? Does it promote the truth of history and the untruth of fiction, or the truth of poetry and the fictiveness of trut...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Romance Literatures
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction: Paradoxical Problems
- PART I Western Paradox and the Spanish Golden Age
- 1 Paradoxical Discourse from Antiquity to the Renaissance: Plato, Nicolaus Cusanus, and Erasmus
- 2 Paradoxy and the Spanish Renaissance: Fernando de Rojas, Antonio de Guevara, and Pero Mexía
- PART II Inventing a Tale, Inventing a Self
- 3 "This Is Not a Prologue": Paradoxy and the Prologue to Don Quixote, Part I
- 4 Paradoxes of lmitation: The Quest for Origins and Originality
- 5 "I Know Who I Am": Don Quixote de la Mancha, Don Diego de Miranda, and the Paradox of Self-Knowledge
- Concluding Remarks
- WORKS CITED
- INDEX