Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Copyright
  • 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 Mexia
  • 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 Imitation: 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
  • Back Cover