Don Quixote and the subversive tradition of Golden Age Spain /

"This study offers a reading of Don Quixote, with comparative material from Golden Age history and Cervantes' life, to argue that his greatest work was not just the hilariously comic entertainment that most of his contemporaries took it to be. Rather, it belongs to a 'subversive tradi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Britton, R. K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Brighton ; Chicago : Sussex Academic Press, 2019.
Temas:
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, > 1547-1616. > Don Quixote.
Don Quixote (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de)
1500-1700
Spanish literature > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Opposition (Political science) in literature.
Opposition (Science politique) dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
Spanish literature > Classical period.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Don Quixote: its author, its readers and its critics
  • Cervantes' laboratory of literary ideas
  • Don Quixote: a book of two halves
  • Truth and lies in real life and fiction: Don Quixote as a defence
  • Of imaginative literature
  • Justice, law and politics: the novel as a vehicle for debate in Don Quixote
  • Humour, irony and satire in Don Quixote: public merriment and private laughter
  • The novel as a mirror to society: women, social class and social conflict in Don Quixote
  • Authority and subversion in Don Quixote: the novel as moral dialectic
  • Afterword. Don Quixote and the 20th century reader.

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