Author

Publication

2008 - Tamesis, Woodbridge, UK, England

Language

English

Word Count

71,750 words, Guess

Page Count

287 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more

Classifications

  • DDC863.3
  • LCCPQ6352 .C614 2008
  • LCCPQ6352

Description

The purpose of this book is to help the English-speaking reader, with an interest in Spanish literature but without specialised knowledge of Cervantes, to understand his long and complex masterpiece: its major themes, its structure, and the inter-connections between its component parts. Beginning from a review of 'Don Quixote's' relation to Cervantes's life, literary career, and its social and cultural context, Anthony Close goes on to examine the structure and distinctive nature of Part I (1605) and Part II (1615), the conception of the characters of Don Quixote and Sancho, Cervantes's word-play and narrative manner, and the historical evolution of posterity's interpretation of the novel, with particular attention to its influence on the theory of the genre.--From publisher's description.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 262

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