Author: Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 9780271082318
Category : Knights and knighthood
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"An adaptation, in graphic novel format, of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes"--Provided by publisher.
Don Quijote, 2nd Norton Critical Edition
Author: Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraPublisher:
ISBN: 9780393617474
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Diana de Armas Wilson's introductory study captures the true essence of why Cervantes's novel has become a valuable piece of our shared cultural heritage. Humour, satire, and the religious and political conflicts that plagued the era all form part of Cervantes's great vision, and Wilson's study provides thorough analysis of why we still want to read the adventures of his would-be knight errant and his loyal squire over four centuries later." --AARON KAHN, University of Sussex
Author: Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraAnatomy of Liberty in Don Quijote de la Mancha
Author: Eric Clifford GrafPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793601194
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Anatomy of Liberty in Don Quijote de la Manchapresents five major facets of liberty as they appear in the first modern novel. Analyzing the novelist’s attitudes towards religion, feminism, slavery, politics, and economics, Graf argues that Cervantes should be considered a major precursor to great liberal thinkers like Locke, Smith, Mill, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Jefferson, Madison, and Twain. Graf indicates not only the medieval and early modern grounds for Cervantes’s ideas but also the ways in which he anticipated and influenced a wide range of modern articulations of personal freedom. Resistance to tyranny, freedom of conscience, the liberation of women, the abolition of slavery, and the principles of a free market economy are all still fundamental to modern Western Civilization, making Don Quiijote de la Mancha extremely relevant to today’s world. Anatomy of Liberty walks us through how Cervantes’s seminal work both foreshadowed and relates to today’s modern society.
Don Quixote
Author: CervantesPublisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603841156
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
James Montgomery's new translation of Don Quixote is the fourth already in the twenty-first century, and it stands with the best of them. It pays particular attention to what may be the hardest aspect of Cervantes's novel to render into English: the humorous passages, particularly those that feature a comic and original use of language. Cervantes would be proud. --Howard Mancing, Professor of Spanish, Purdue University and Vice President, Cervantes Society of America
Neo-Stoicism and Skepticism in Part One of Don Quijote
Author: Daniel LorcaPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498522661
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
This book explains how Cervantes took advantage of neo-stoicism and skepticism to remove the authority of the romances of chivalry, which was a popular genre during his time. It also explains why his strategy, which would have been instantly recognizable during the period, is no longer effective: our current moral systems are significantly different from the moral systems that were influential during Cervantes’s time, and consequently, what used to be self-evident is no longer the case. Therefore, this book may be useful to the literary critic interested in the philosophical foundations of Don Quijote, to the moral philosopher interested in the differences between pre-enlightenment virtue-ethics and current moral systems, and also in the field of the history of ideas. Don Quijote offers a unique opportunity to observe changes in moral thinking throughout time because it is a universal book, discussed extensively throughout out the centuries, and therefore the on-going discussion offers strong evidence to discover how morality has changed, and continues to change, through time.
Sunflowers Under Fire
Author: Diana StevanPublisher: Island House Publishing
ISBN: 1988180066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Finalist for the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Awards, Semi-finalist for 2019 Kindle Book Awards, Literary Fiction, and Honorable Mention 2020 Writers' Digest Self-Published Book Awards. In this family saga, love and loss are bound together by a country always at war During WWI, Lukia Mazurets, a Ukrainian farmwife, delivers her eighth child while her husband is serving in the Tsar’s army. Soon after, she and her children are forced to flee the invading Germans. Over the next fourteen years, Lukia must rely on her wits and faith to survive life in a refugee camp, the ravages of a typhus epidemic, the Bolshevik revolution, unimaginable losses, and one daughter’s forbidden love. Sunflowers Under Fire is a heartbreakingly intimate novel that illuminates the strength of the human spirit. Based on the true stories of her grandmother’s ordeals, author Diana Stevan captures the voices of those who had little say in a country that is still being fought over.
Don Quijote
Author: Miguel De Cervantes SaavedraPublisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Don Quijote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra: Cervantes's epic novel, "Don Quijote," tells the story of the delusional yet idealistic Don Quijote who sets out on a series of misadventures as a self-proclaimed knight-errant. The book is a seminal work of Spanish literature and explores themes of chivalry, reality versus fantasy, and the power of storytelling. Key Aspects of the Book "Don Quijote": Spanish Literature Classic: "Don Quijote" is considered one of the greatest works of Spanish literature, capturing the essence of the Spanish Golden Age and leaving a lasting impact on literary tradition. Character Study: The novel delves into the complex character of Don Quijote, examining his motivations, delusions, and the transformation of his identity as he embarks on his knightly quests. Exploration of Literature and Reality: Cervantes blurs the lines between fiction and reality, highlighting the power of storytelling and the influence of literature on shaping our perceptions of the world. "Don Quijote" by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra is the classic novel that tells the story of Don Quixote, a middle-aged gentleman who becomes obsessed with the idea of chivalry and goes on various misadventures as a self-proclaimed knight-errant. The book is often regarded as a classic of Spanish literature and is known for its humor, satire, and commentary on the ideals of chivalry.
Author: Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraDon Quixote and Catholicism
Author: Michael McGrathPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1557539014
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Four hundred years since its publication, Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote continues to inspire and to challenge its readers. The universal and timeless appeal of the novel, however, has distanced its hero from its author and its author from his own life and the time in which he lived. The discussion of the novel’s Catholic identity, therefore, is based on a reading that returns Cervantes’s hero to Cervantes’s text and Cervantes to the events that most shaped his life. The authors and texts McGrath cites, as well as his arguments and interpretations, are mediated by his religious sensibility. Consequently, he proposes that his study represents one way of interpreting Don Quixote and acts as a complement to other approaches. It is McGrath’s assertion that the religiosity and spirituality of Cervantes’s masterpiece illustrate that Don Quixote is inseparable from the teachings of Catholic orthodoxy. Furthermore, he argues that Cervantes’s spirituality is as diverse as early modern Catholicism. McGrath does not believe that the novel is primarily a religious or even a serious text, and he considers his arguments through the lens of Cervantine irony, satire, and multiperspectivism. As a Roman Catholic who is a Hispanist, McGrath proposes to reclaim Cervantes’s Catholicity from the interpretive tradition that ascribes a predominantly Erasmian reading of the novel. When the totality of biographical and sociohistorical events and influences that shaped Cervantes’s religiosity are considered, the result is a new appreciation of the novel’s moral didactic and spiritual orientation.
