A Companion to Don Quixote ∥ Close, Anthony
                    
                                        
                                                                                                                            
                                                                
                            商品コード: 150632
                        
                                                                                    
                                        
                    
                                            
                                        商品コード(SBC): 150632 
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 ISBN13: 9781855662087  
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サイズ: 15.5 x 23.5 x 2.2 cm  
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頁 数: 296 pgs. 
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装 丁: paper cover 
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出版社: Boydell & Brewer 
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発行年: 2010 
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発行地: London 
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双書名: Tamesis A/Monografias, 262
                    
                 
             
         
                     
                 
Description: 
An introduction to Cervantes’s complex masterpiece.
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.
One of the principal questions tackled is the paradoxical incongruity between Cervantes’s conception of his novel as a light work ofentertainment, without any explicitly acknowledged profundity, and posterity’s view of it as a universally symbolic masterpiece, revolutionary in the context of its own time, and capable of meaning something new and different to each succeeding age.