A Critical Introduction to «Don Quixote» / Edition 2

by Luis Andrés Murillo

Overview

Designed as a ‘reading guide’, this book provides a three-tiered approach to the literary fabric of Cervantes’ masterpiece: story, narrators, characters, style and structure. Its three major divisions—The Exemplary Story, The Quixotic Fiction, The Mythical Don Quixote, trace and analyze episode by episode the hero’s transformation from a ‘clinical’ case of literary insanity and chivalric folly, through the artifice of interlocking fictions that sustain his rise to mock in Part I, to mythical status as redemptive hero of social satire in Part II.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780820470931
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	11/06/2003
Edition description:	2nd Revised ed.
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

L. A. Murillo is Professor of Spanish, Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley. A native of Pasadena, he served in the U.S. Army Air Force in 1943-1945, earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and his doctorate at Harvard University in 1953. Besides his publications as specialist in Spanish literature of the Golden Age and on Cervantes, he has published translations of Jorge Luis Borges and The Cyclical Night, a study of irony in James Joyce and Borges.

Editorial Reviews

"…Like the book it illuminates, Murillo's study offers solace and stimulation for all seasons, with something substantive for every critical humor." James A. Parr, Professor of Spanish, University of Southern California

"…The result is a beautifully organized and unhurried promenade through the masterpiece that opens up new vistas for even the most practiced reader and discovers interconnections new to even the most knowledgeable. In one stroke Professor Murillo has rendered all earlier critical guides out of date." Alan S. Trueblood, Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature, Brown University

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