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"Don Quixote" and the Poetics of the Novel

By Felix Martinez-Bonati; Dian Fox

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781501745294, 9780801423598
LCC
PQ6351 .M378 1992
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
31 MB (32887414 bytes)
Pages
317\317
Time added
2023-08-30 09:06:28
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Description

In response to the classic question whether Don Quixote is true to life, Felix Martinez-Bonati defines it as an unrealistic allegory of realism. He maintains that Cervantes's novel presents an ironized universe of literature that plays with the contradictions of traditional wisdom and the variety and limitations of literary forms—including those of verisimilitude. Drawing on Aristotle's Poetics, on the idealist and romantic traditions that originate in Kant, Schiller, Schelling, Hegel, and Coleridge, and on contemporary critical theory, Martinez-Bonati describes the stylistic matrix of Don Quixote as a combination of semirealism, romance fantasy, and comedy. He provides fresh insights into the character of Cervantes's imagination, the composition and unity of Don Quixote, and its generic structure, rhetorical force, and metafictional intentionality.

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