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"Don Quixote" and the Poetics of the Novel

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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2019

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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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Felix Martinez-Bonati is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Prologue

    xi
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    Introduction: Questions and Points of Confusion

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    1. Cervantes and the Regions of the Imagination

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    2. The Unity of the Quixote

    76
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    3. The Quixote: Its Game, Its Genre, and Its Characters

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    4. Toward the Meanings

    138
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    5. Verisimilitude, Realism, and Literariness

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    Epilogue

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    Notes

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    Index of Authors

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August 5, 2019
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9781501745294
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https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745294
eBook ISBN: 9781501745294
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LITERARY STUDIES
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For a non-specialist adult audience
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