Don Quixote

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Don Quixote

The Re-accentuation of the World’s Greatest Literary Hero

Anthologies: general Literary studies: general Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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Language: English

Published by: Bucknell University Press

Published on: 6th November 2017

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 308 pages

ISBN: 9781611488586


Book Overview

This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world’s greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature.

To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject.

For the first time, Don Quixote is discussed from the point of re-accentuation, i.e. having in mind one of the key Bakhtinian concepts that will serve as a theoretical framework.

A primary objective was therefore to articulate, relying on the concept of re-accentuation, that the history of the novel has benefited enormously from the re-accentuation of Don Quixote helping us to shape countless iconic novels from the eighteenth century, and to see how Cervantes’s title character has been reinterpreted to suit the needs of a variety of cultures across time and space.

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