Miguel De Cervantes Don Quixote; New Edition (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

Cover......Page 1 Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations: Don Quixote......Page 4 Contents......Page 6 Editor’s Note......Page 8 Introduction......Page 10 Reading the Prologue: Cervantes’s Narrative Appropriation and Originality......Page 12 Cervantes as Narrator of Don Quijote......Page 34 Books Errant: The Objects of Invention in Don Quixote......Page 52 A Novel for the Twenty-first Century......Page 66 The Knight as Fugitive from Justice: The Quijote, Part I......Page 78 Constructing Don Quixote......Page 100 Palace of the Apes: The Ducal Chateau......Page 118 Discursive Hybridity: Don Quixote’s and Sancho Panza’s Utopias......Page 126 Don Quijote 1 and the Forging of National History......Page 154 Chronology......Page 174 Contributors......Page 176 Bibliography......Page 178 Acknowledgments......Page 182 Index......Page 184 Reading the prologue: Cervantes's narrative appropriation and originality / Carolyn A. Nadeau Cervantes as narrator of Don Quijote / Howard Mancing Books errant: the objects of invention in Don Quixote / Edward H. Friedman Novel for the twenty-first century / Mario Vargas Llosa Knight as fugitive from justice: the Quijote, part I / Roberto González Echevarría Constructing Don Quixote / Manuel Durán and Fay R. Rogg Palace of the apes: the ducal chateau and Cervantes's repudiation of satiric malice / Bryant Creel Discursive hybridity: Don Quixote's and Sancho Panza's utopias / Myriam Yvonne Jehenson and Peter N. Dunn Don Quijote 1 and the forging of national history / Barbara Fuchs Actual and another modernity; order and imagination in Don Quixote / Raymond Geuss. The origins of the novel can be traced to this picaresque tale of an errant knight and his comical sidekick. The new edition of the invaluable reference will aid students, writers, and readers seeking the strongest contemporary criticism of Miguel de Cervantes's beloved work. Helpful features include a bibliography, a chronology of the author's life, and an index, along with an informative introductory essay by Yale literature professor Harold Bloom. Presents critical essays that discuss the language, characters, plot, and major themes of the author's novel of a knight-errant and his weary sidekick