Don Quixote Among The Saracens

Author : Frederick A. de Armas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442696112

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Don Quixote Among the Saracens by Frederick A. de Armas Pdf

The fictional Don Quixote was constantly defeated in his knightly adventures. In writing Quixote's story, however, Miguel Cervantes succeeded in a different kind of quest — the creation of a modern novel that ‘conquers’ and assimilates countless literary genres. /spanDon Quixote among the Saracens considers how Cervantes's work reflects the clash of civilizations and anxieties towards cultural pluralism that permeated Golden Age Spain. Frederick A. de Armas unravels an essential mystery of one of world literature's best known figures: why Quixote sets out to revive knight errantry, and why he comes to feel at home only among the Moorish ‘Saracens,’ a people whom Quixote feared at the beginning of the novel. De Armas also reveals Quixote's inner conflicts as both a Christian who vows to battle the infidel, but also a secret Saracen sympathizer. While delving into genre theory, Don Quixote among the Saracens adds a new dimension to our understandings of Spain's multicultural history.

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Knights and knighthood
ISBN : BNC:1001941362

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The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001989277

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The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha,1 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

Author : William Franke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040089347

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Don Quixote’s Impossible Quest for the Absolute in Literature by William Franke Pdf

This book offers a reading particularly of Part II of Don Quixote, a reading that is embedded in a philosophical reflection on the revelation of religious truth in and through literature. Part II of Don Quixote is the far richer part for its meta-literary reflection on the novel itself as a genre and on life as such seen through the lens of self-reflection. The author has treated the phenomenon of modern self-reflexivity as originally theological in nature in previous publications (notably Dante’s Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought: Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection, Routledge, 2021). The present endeavor expands this overall intellectual project, extending it into detailed consideration of what is recognizably another nodal great work inaugurating unprecedented forms of self-reflection in the early modern period. Reading the founding texts of literary and cultural tradition in this negative-theological key proves crucial to allowing them to release the full force of their religious vision in the present age, despite its sometimes obstinate secularity. This reading absorbs and reconciles the religious and secular readings of Miguel de Unamuno and José Ortega y Gasset, two of Spain’s outstanding philosophical luminaries. Both thinkers based their entire philosophies and their analyses of the Spanish national character and destiny on their interpretations of the Quixote. Negative theology deploys critical reason that critiques the limits of reason itself and opens toward an unfathomable (un)ground of All. Such speculative interpretation performs a synthesis of the secularizing and sacralizing tendencies that are both sublimely operative in the text of the Quixote. It thereby enables the work to emerge in the fully parodic and paradoxical vitality that other interpretations, governed by one paradigm or the other, access only partially. Rather than falling into one camp or the other, the proposed approach combines and resources both heritages, sacred and secular, in their deepest synergisms. Spanish baroque mysticism and contemporary post-secular thought are made to converge in highlighting the blessed, even sacred, donation that literature like Don Quixote preserves and transmits as our most precious and saving cultural heritage.

Author : James A. Parr,Lisa Vollendorf
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603291897

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Approaches to Teaching Cervantes's Don Quixote by James A. Parr,Lisa Vollendorf Pdf

This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Cervantes's Don Quixote highlights dramatic changes in pedagogy and scholarship in the last thirty years: today, critics and teachers acknowledge that subject position, cultural identity, and political motivations afford multiple perspectives on the novel, and they examine both literary and sociohistorical contextualization with fresh eyes. Part 1, "Materials," contains information about editions of Don Quixote, a history and review of the English translations, and a survey of critical studies and Internet resources. In part 2, "Approaches," essays cover such topics as the Moors of Spain in Cervantes's time; using film and fine art to teach his novel; and how to incorporate psychoanalytic theory, satire, science and technology, gender, role-playing, and other topics and techniques in a range of twenty-first-century classroom settings.

Author : K. Karim,M. Eid
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137403698

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Engaging the Other by K. Karim,M. Eid Pdf

Addressing the specific contexts of communal leadership, educational policy, inter-communal relations, legal reform, media production, public discourse, public opinion, and responses to government policy, this volume examines Western-Muslim relations and makes proposals for enhancing Self-Other interaction to improve societal harmony.

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:591088711

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Don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by C. Jarvis by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

Author : Ning Ma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190606565

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The Age of Silver by Ning Ma Pdf

"This book advances a "horizontal" method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early realism and novelistic modernity in Eastern and Western cultural spheres from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Naming this era of economic globalization the 'Age of Silver,' this study emphasizes the bullion flow from South America and Japan to China through international commerce, and argues that the resultant transcontinental monetary and commercial co-evolutions stimulated analogous socioeconomic shifts and emergent novelistic realisms in places such as China, Japan, Spain, and England. The main texts it addresses include The Plum in the Golden Vase (anonymous, China, late sixteenth century), Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes, Spain, 1605 and 1615), The Life of an Amorous Man (Ihara Saikaku, Japan, 1682), and Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe, England, 1719). These Eastern and Western narratives indicate from their own geographical vantage points commercial expansions' stimulation of social mobility and larger processes of cultural destabilization. Their realist tendencies are underlain with politically critical functions and connote "heteroglossic" national imaginaries. This horizontal argument realigns novelistic modernity with a multipolar global context and reestablishes commensurabilities between Eastern and Western literary histories. On a broader level, it challenges the unilateral equation between globalization and modernity with westernization, and foregrounds a polycentric mode of global early modernity for pluralizing the genealogy of 'world literature' and historical transcultural relations"

Author : Aaron M. Kahn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191060571

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The Oxford Handbook of Cervantes by Aaron M. Kahn Pdf

Although best known the world over for his masterpiece novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha, published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, the antics of the would-be knight-errant and his simple squire only represent a fraction of the trials and tribulations, both in the literary world and in society at large, of this complex man. Poet, playwright, soldier, slave, satirist, novelist, political commentator, and literary outsider, Cervantes achieved a minor miracle by becoming one of the rarest of things in the Early-Modern world of letters: an international best-seller during his lifetime, with his great novel being translated into multiple languages before his death in 1616. The principal objective of The Oxford Handbook of Cervantes is to create a resource in English that provides a fully comprehensive overview of the life, works, and influences of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616). This volume contains seven sections, exploring in depth Cervantes's life and how the trials, tribulations, and hardships endured influenced his writing. Cervantistas from numerous countries, including the United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland, the United States, Canada, and France offer their expertise with the most up-to-date research and interpretations to complete this wide-ranging, but detailed, compendium of a writer not known for much other than his famous novel outside of the Spanish-speaking world. Here we explore his famous novelDon Quixote de la Mancha, his other prose works, his theatrical output, his poetry, his sources, influences, and contemporaries, and finally reception of his works over the last four hundred years.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004356399

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Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 9 Western and Southern Europe (1600-1700) by Anonim Pdf

Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 9 (CMR 9) is a history of everything that was written on relations in the period 1600-1700 in Western and Southern Europe. Its detailed entries contain descriptions, assessments and comprehensive bibliographical details about individual works.

Author : Charlene Villaseñor Black,Mari-Tere Álvarez
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520296985

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Renaissance Futurities by Charlene Villaseñor Black,Mari-Tere Álvarez Pdf

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Renaissance Futurities considers the intersections between artistic rebirth, the new science, and European imperialism in the global early modern world. Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez take as inspiration the work of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), prolific artist and inventor, and other polymaths such as philosopher Giulio “Delminio” Camillo (1480–1544), physician and naturalist Francisco Hernández de Toledo (1514–1587), and writer Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616). This concern with futurity is inspired by the Renaissance itself, a period defined by visions of the future, as well as by recent theorizing of temporality in Renaissance and Queer Studies. This transdisciplinary volume is at the cutting edge of the humanities, medical humanities, scientific discovery, and avant-garde artistic expression.

Author : N. Birns
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137364562

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Barbarian Memory: The Legacy of Early Medieval History in Early Modern Literature by N. Birns Pdf

An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille. The liminality of the late antique period and the issues of ethnicity and religion it raises makes it very different from that of the classical world in analogous writers.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438133430

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Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote by Harold Bloom Pdf

Arguably the most influential work to emerge from Spain's Golden Age, Don Quixote laid the groundwork for the Western literary canon and remains one of its major achievements.

Author : Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1782
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000399291

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The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra Pdf

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Knights and knighthood
ISBN : NLI:2949823-30

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The History of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf