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Critical Studies on Cervantes and Don Quijote 

Don Quixote, Don Juan, and Related Subjects: Form and Tradition in Spanish Literature, 1330-1630
Author: James A Parr
 Publication Date: November 2004
 Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
 ISBN: 1-57591-084-5
Price: $52.50
 Binding Format: Trade Cloth
This is a study of niajor figures, texts, and periods in Spanish literature prior to 1700. It applies�and interrogates�modern critical theory. Contributing to its cohesiveness are the time span addressed (1330�1630) and the emphasis throughout on literary and critical approaches.
 
Cervantes's Novel of Modern Times: A New Reading of Don Quijote

Author: David Quint
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: October 2003
ISBN: 0-691-11433-1
Price: $35.00 Retail
Binding Format: Cloth Text; illustrated; 224 pp.; 6 x 9 in. .444 k.g.
      This book offers a radically new reading of Don Quijote, understanding it as a whole much greater than the sum of its famous parts. David Quint discovers a unified narrative and deliberate thematic design in a novel long taught as the very definition of the picaresque and as a rambling succession of individual episodes. Quint shows how repeated motifs and verbal details link the episodes, often in surprising and heretofore unnoticed ways. Don Quijote emerges as a work that charts and reflects upon the historical transition from feudalism to the modern times of a moneyed, commercial society. In Part One of the novel, this change is measured in a shift in the nature of erotic desire, and we find Don Quijote torn between his love for Dulcinea and his hopes to wed for wealth and social advancement. In Part Two, Don Quijote himself changes from anarchic madman to a gentler, wiser hero--a member of a middle class in the making.
     Throughout, Cervantes meditates on the literary form that he is inventing as a response to modernity, questioning the novel's relationship to other genres and the place of heroism and imagination within stories of everyday life. A new and coherent guide through the maze-like structure of Don Quijote, this book invites readers to appreciate the perennial modernity of Cervantes's masterpiece---a novel that confronts times not so distant from our own.
 
Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive's Tale
Maria Antonia Garces
Publisher: Vanderbilt U. Press
Trade Cloth; Publ. Date: 2003
ISBN: 0-8265-1406-5
Price: $39.95
Format: 368 pages, 6 x 9 inches
     Returning to Spain after fighting in the Battle of Lepanto and other Mediterranean campaigns against the Turks, the soldier Miguel de Cervantes was captured by Barbary pirates and taken captive to Algiers. The five years he spent in the Algerian bagnios or prison-houses (1575-1580) made an indelible impression on his works. From the first plays and narratives written after his release to his posthumous novel, the story of Cervantes's traumatic experience continuously speaks through his writings. Cervantes in Algiers offers a comprehensive view of his life as a slave and, particularly, of the lingering effects this traumatic experience had on his literary production.
 
 
The Cervantes Encyclopedia
Howard Mancing
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Format: Trade Cloth, 863 pages; 2.26 x 10.22 x 7.20
Publ. Date: 2003. 
ISBN: 0-313-30695-8
Price: $149.95.
     Cervantes is undoubtedly one of the world's most influential authors. While scholars continue to debate his role as the inventor of the novel, readers have found centuries of entertainment and inspiration in his works. Don Quixote contains one of the most memorable characters in all of literature and forever shaped the course of literary history and popular culture. This reference is a comprehensive guide to Cervantes' stunning achievements. 
 
Passing for Spain: Cervantes and the Fictions of Identity
Author: Barbara Fuchs
 Publisher: University of Illinois Press
 Publication Date: February 2003
ISBN: 0-252-02781-7
Binding Format: Trade Cloth; illustrated; 160 pp; 6 x 9 in. .36 k.g.
 Price: $32.50 
     Passing for Spain charts the intersections of identity, nation, and literary representation in early modern Spain. Barbara Fuchs analyzes the trope of passing in Don Quijote and other works by Cervantes, linking the use of disguise to the broader historical and social context of Counter-Reformation Spain and the religious and political dynamics of the Mediterranean Basin." "In five engaging chapters, Fuchs examines what passes in Cervantes's fiction: gender and race in Don Quijote and "Las dos doncellas"; religion in "El amante liberal" and La gran sultana; national identity in the Persiles and "La espanola inglesa." She argues that Cervantes represents cross-cultural impersonation - or characters who pass for another gender, nationality, or religion - as a challenge to the state's attempts to assign identities and categories to proper Spanish subjects."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved (Blackwell)
 
Adventures in Paradox: Don Quixote and the Western Tradition
Author: Charles D Presberg
 Publication Date: October 2000; 2003
 Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
 ISBN: 0-271-02364-3
 Binding Format: Trade Cloth;  264 pp.; 15 x 23 cm.
 Price: $23.95

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Paperback: $23.95
ISBN: 0-271-02364-3
 
     Cervantes's Don Quixote confronts us with a series of enigmas that, over the centuries, have divided even its most expert readers: Does the text pursue a serious or comic purpose? Does it promote the truth of history and the untruth of fiction, or the truth of poetry and the fictiveness of truth itself? In a book that will revise the way we read and debate Don Quixote, Charles D. Presberg discusses the trope of paradox as a governing rhetorical strategy in this most canonical of Spanish literary texts.
     To situate Cervantes's masterpiece within the centuries-long praxis of paradoxical discourse in the West, Presberg surveys its tradition in Classical Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the European Renaissance. He outlines the development of paradoxy in the Spanish Renaissance, centering on works by Fernando de Rojas, Pero MexÕa, and Antonio de Guevara. In his detailed reading of portions of Don Quixote, Presberg shows how Cervantes's work enlarges the tradition of paradoxical discourse by imitating as well as transforming fictional and nonfictional models. He concludes that Cervantes's seriocomic "system" of paradoxy jointly parodies, celebrates, and urges us to ponder the agency of discourse in the continued refashioning of knowledge, history, culture, and personal identity.
     This engaging book will be welcomed by literary scholars, Hispanisists, historians, and students of the history of rhetoric and poetics.
 
The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes

Contributor: Anthony J Cascardi (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: October 2002
ISBN: 0-521-66321-0
Item Status: Active Record (Readily Available)
Binding Format: Cloth Text; illustrated; 264 pp; 16 x 24 cm., .539 k.g.
Price: $65.00

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ISBN: 0-521-66387-3
Price: $23.00

     'Don Quixote de la Mancha' (1605) is one of the classic texts of western literature and the foundation of European fiction. Yet Cervantes himself remains an enigmatic figure. 'The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes' offers a comprehensive treatment of Cervantes' life and work.
     The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes offers a comprehensive treatment of Cervantes' life and work.
"Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605) is one of the classic texts of Western literature and the foundation of European fiction. Yet Cervantes himself remains an enigmatic figure. The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes offers a comprehensive treatment of Cervantes' life and work, including his lesser known writing. 
      The essays, by some the most outstanding scholars in the field, cover the historical and political context of Cervantes' writing, his place in Renaissance culture, and the role of his masterpiece, Don Quixote, in the formation of the modern novel. They draw on contemporary critical perspectives to shed new light on Cervantes' work, including the Exemplary Novels, the plays and dramatic interludes, and the long romances, Galatea and Persiles. The volume provides useful supporting material for students: suggestions for further reading, a detailed chronology, a complete list of his published writings, an overview of translations and editions, and a guide to electronic resources."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved (Blackwell)

  
Don Quixote's Delusions: Travels in Castilian Spain
Author: Miranda France

Publisher: Overlook Press. (Penguin Group)
 Publication Date: August 2002
ISBN: 1-58567-292-0
Binding Format: Trade Cloth; Pages: 240
Price: $26.95
     Synopsis/Annotation:This is a reprint of English-born France's 2001 publication, in which the author describes her experiences as a student in Madrid in 1987, and new realizations about Spain during a return visit in 1998. She connects her personal journey and discoveries to an examination of Cervantes' novel, . This unusual combination of literary analysis and autobiography may appeal to scholars, travelers and general readers alike. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
 
     Jacket Description:"In 1987, when Miranda France spent a year in Madrid as a student, the new freedoms of post-Franco Spain were intoxicating: divorce, regional languages, contraceptives, kissing in the street, even the public consumption of drugs had become legal. At the university where, in 1936, Republicans had fought Nationalists in hand-to-hand combat, girls with Snoopy folders now sat alongside men with well-washed hair and boat shoes. Yet Madrid was also a mecca for fiery South American communists and moody Basque nationalists.
     Against this background, Miranda France describes a love-affair with a Peruvian revolutionary as well as an eccentric cast of characters - landladies, roommates, neighbors, and fellow students." "Then, in 1998, she returns to Spain to revisit the countryside, towns, and great cities of the central part of the country - Madrid, Toledo, Avila, Segovia, Salamanca - and to discover how much has changed in ten years. With the new prosperity, much has altered, and the old bargain between men and women is over. But many values have endured, as she learns from a private detective, a shepherd, various nuns, two belly dancers, and a Castilian separatist, among others."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved (Blackwell)
     Miranda France is the author of Bad Times in Buenos Aires, which was short listed for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. She was brought up in East Anglia and Sussex, and now lives with her husband and son in London.
 
No Ordinary Man: The Life and Times of Miguel de Cervantes

Author: Donald P McCrory
Publisher: Peter Owen Limited
Publication Date: July 2002
ISBN: 0-7206-1085-0
Item Status: Active Record (Readily Available)
Binding Format: Trade Cloth; illustrated; 320 pp; 14 x 22 cm., .3 k.g.
Price:$44.95

     First biography in English of Cervantes in twenty years reveals much new information.
     No Ordinary Man is a study of the life and times of Miguel de Cervantes, spy, adventurer, soldier, hostage, the Shakespeare of Spain and author of the timeless and undisputed classic, Don Quixote.
 
Studies in the Spanish Golden Age: Cervantes and Lope De Vega
Dana Drake; Jose A Madrigal
Publisher: Ediciones Universal
Format: Trade Cloth
Publ. Date: 2002
ISBN: 0-89729-175-1
Price: $12.00
 
 
Women of the Prologue: Imitation, Myth, and Magic in Don Quixote I
Author: Carolyn A Nadeau
Publication Date: March 2002
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 0-8387-5510-0
Binding Format: Trade Cloth; Pages: 192; .47 k.g.
Price: $36.00  
     Synopsis/Annotation: Investigating Cervantes' view of female roles in the contexts of early 17th century Spain and the Renaissance artistic method of , Nadeau (Spanish literature, Illinois Wesleyan U.) analyzes the classical models for his portrayal of women cited in the famous work's prologue. Noting that Medea and the other mythic figures featured were all powerful but socially unacceptable women, she reads Cervantes as transforming these tales toward greater freedom for his female characters and himself. Based on a 1994 doctoral dissertation from Pennsylvania State U. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
     Author Info: Carolyn A. Nadeau is Associate Professor at Illinois Wesleyan University where she specializes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature. (Blackwell)
 
Don Quijote Dictionary
Tom Lathrop (Editor). 
Publisher: Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs; 
Format: Trade Paper; 130 pp.  
Publ. Date: 2001.
ISBN: 1-58977-001-3
Price: $5.95
      This Dictionary has 7,800 entries and 12,000 definitions. This Dictionary can be used with any edition of the Quijote. Words are listed that students ordinarily shouldn’t be expected to know (abadejo codfish; zaquizamí garret), and some that maybe they should know (padecer to suffer; raposa fox). Sometimes definitions are given for more common words, just in case (manera way; nobleza nobility). The first mention is listed with a part and chapter number (i.e., [II16] = Part II, Chapter 16). Words from preliminary parts of the book are so identified as well (i.e., [pról II] = Cervantes’ Prologue to Part II).
 
Wry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes and the Early Picaresque
Author: David R Castillo
Publisher: Purdue University Press
 Publication Date: March 2001
ISBN: 1-55753-227-3
Format: Trade Cloth;  illustrated; xiii, 182 pp; 15 x 23 cm., .454 k.g.
Price: $47.95 Retail
     Synopsis/Annotation: Castillo (Spanish, U. of Oregon) examines 16th and 17th century Spanish picaresque literature and connects it with anamorphic designs in artwork of the same period. He contends that the perspectivist tendencies of this literature invite the reader to actively participate in a game of displacements and sudden revelations. Coverage includes Cervantes' Don Quixote, Mateo Aleman's Guzman de Alfarache, and Lopez de <'U>beda's La picara Justina. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
     Author Info: David R. Castillo is an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon. (Blackwell)
     Jacket Description: "The term anamorphosis, from the Greek ana ("again") and morphe ("shape"), designates a variety of perspective experiments that can be traced back to the artistic developments of the 1500s and early 1600s. Anamorphic devices challenge viewers to experience different forms of perceptual oscillation and uncertainty. Images shift in front of the eyes of the puzzled spectators as they move from the center of the representation to the margins, or from one side to the other." "(A)wry Views demonstrates that much of the literature of the Spanish Golden Age (roughly 1550-1650) is similarly susceptible to a mode of interpretation that permits, and indeed requires, "oblique readings." Thus the perspectivist tendencies that are characteristic of the work of Miguel de Cervantes and many of the picaresque narratives of the period - including the anonymous Lazarillo de Tormes, Mateo Aleman's Guzman de Alfarache, and Lopez de Ubeda's La picara Justina - invite the reader to actively participate in a game of displacements and sudden revelations." "As with the optical illusions of anamorphosis, this reading game may well result in a questioning of the fit between reality and perception, perhaps even in a suspension of commonly held beliefs about the world and our place in it."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved (Blackwell)
 
Cervantes, the Novel and the New World
Author: Diana de Armas Wilson
 Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
 Publication Date: February 2001
 ISBN: 0-19-816005-4
 Binding Format: Cloth Text; illustrated; 272 pp.; 14 x 22 cm.. .437 k.g.
 Price: $85.00
     Synopsis/Annotation: Moving beyond an inventory of Cervantes's references to the Indies - to Mexico and Peru, cannibals and tobacco, parrots and alligators - this study interprets his novels as a transatlantic, cross-cultural, and multi-linguistic achievement.
     Author Info: Diana de Armas Wilson is Professor of English and Renaissance Studies, University of Denver, Colorado. (Blackwell)
     Jacket Description: "Two sets of related issues prompt this study: the birth of the New World in the European consciousness and the rise of the Cervantine novel in Spain. The conquest, exploration, and colonization of the Indies resonate through Cervantes's two novels Don Quixote (1605, 1615), and the Persiles (1617), both coloured by imperialism. Cervantes begins publishing in the 1580s, just as the might of imperial Spain turns from Europe to the Atlantic. Twice refused emigration papers to America - which he depicts as the 'refuge and haven of all the desperate men of Spain' - Cervantes turns to fiction. His novels internalize many colonial discourses and at least four genres implicated in Spain's New World enterprise: the Books of Chivalry, the utopias, the colonial war epic, and American ethnohistory. The first full length study to move beyond an inventory of Cervantes's references to the Indies - to Mexico and Peru, cannibals and tobacco, parrots and alligators - this book interprets his novels as a transatlantic, cross-cultural, and multi-lingual achievement."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved (Blackwell)
  
Cervantes and the Comic Mind of His Age
Author: Anthony Close
 Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
 Publication Date: November 2000
 ISBN: 0-19-815998-6
 Binding Format: Cloth Text; illustrated; 384 pp.; 16 x 23 cm. .688 k.g.
 Price: $95.00
     "This book relates Cervantes's poetics of comic fiction to the common framework of assumptions, values, and ideas held by Spaniards of the Golden Age about the comic and the kinds of writing which expressed it. This collective mentality underwent significant evolution in the period 1500 to 1630, and the factors which caused it are reflected in the ways in which the major comic genres (satire, the picaresque, the comedia, the novella) are re-launched, transformed, and theoretically rationalized around 1600, the moment when Don Quijote and Cervantes's most famous novelas were written.
    Though Cervantes is universally acknowledged to be a master of comic fiction, his poetics have never before been considered from that specific angle, nor in such ample scope. In particular, the book sets itself to identic the differences between that poetics and the conceptions of comic fiction of his contemporaries, including Mateo Aleman."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved (Blackwell)
  
The Southern Inheritors of Don Quixote
Author: Montserrat Gines
Publication Date: September 2000
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
ISBN: 0-8071-2589-X
Binding Format: Trade Cloth; Pages: xviii, 186; 5.5 x 8.5 x .87 in.; .95 lbs.
Price: $49.95

Paperback edition:
ISBN: 0-8071-2651-9
Price: $22.50
     Synopsis/Annotation: Comparative study between Cervantes' masterpiece & the world & works of Twain, Cabell, Faulkner, Welty, & Percy.
     Author Info: Montserrat Gines is assistant professor of technology and American culture at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona and a former visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Blackwell)
     Jacket Description: "A broad study of the Quixotic spirit, The Southern Inheritors of Don Quixote points to the universal nature of the poetic fancy, which when it touches the deepest wellsprings of human experience repeats itself in cross-cultural paradigms. It is in this way that Cervantes' knight has won for himself a place of honor in the literature of the American South."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved (Blackwell)
 
Cervantes and the Material World
Author: Carroll B Johnson

Publication Date: May 2000
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0-252-02548-2
Binding Format: Trade Cloth; Pages: 272 pp.;  6.29 x 9.25 x 1.25 in.; 1.16 lbs.
Price: $35.00 
     Jacket Description: "In this innovative revisiting of Don Quixote and the Novelas ejemplares, Carroll B. Johnson investigates in detail the cultural and material environment in which Cervantes placed his characters." "Cervantes and the Material World reveals a recurrent preoccupation with the clash of two different economic systems: a reenergized feudalism and an incipient capitalism. Overturning the common assumption that Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, and myriad other colorful characters carry out their adventures in a timeless social milieu, Johnson demonstrates how their perspectives and experiences are shaped by the events and crises of their immediate historical context."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved (Blackwell)
     The University of Illinois Press announces a new series, Hispanisms, edited by Anne Cruz of the University of Illinois at Chicago, that presents innovative studies of Spanish culture as it is expressed throughout the world. We are proud to inaugurate the series with Carroll B. Johnson's Cervantes and the Material World.
 
Meditations on Quixote
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
Contributor: Evelyn Rugg (Translator); Diego Marin (Translator)
Julian Marias (Notes by); Julian Marias (Introduction by)
Publication Date: January 2000
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0-252-06895-5
Binding Format: Paper Text;  192 pp.; 5.45 x 8.17 x .58 in.; .52 lbs.
Price: $14.95  
     Jacket Description: "In Meditations on Quixote, Jose Ortega y Gasset presents a powerful case for integrating literature into experience. Through a series of "essays in intellectual love," Ortega explores the aim of philosophy: to carry a given fact (a person, a book, a landscape, an error, a sorrow) by the shortest route to its fullest significance. He then considers how literature, specifically Cervantes, contributes to realizing this aim."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved (Blackwell)
     Contents;  Chronology;  Preface;  Part I. Don Quixote’s Premises, Structure Themes, and Basic Burlesque Methods: 1. Critical approaches;  background;  Cervantes’s motives;  2. The basic burlesque formula;  3. The narrator’s persona;  4. Empathetic parody;  comic and satiric modes;  5. Form of Part I;  its episodes;  6. Common nature;  7. Form of Part II;  its episodes;  Part II. The Personalities of Quixote and Sancho:1. Development through conversation;  2. Quixote’s burlesque character;  3. The Sanchification of Panza;  4. Paradoxes of Part II;  Quixote’s disillusionment;  5. Quixote and Dulcinea;  Part III. Don Quixote as Landmark;  Guide to further reading 
 
Cervantes for the 21st Century/Cervantes para el siglo XXI: Studies in Honor of Edward Dudley
Contributor: Francisco La Rubia Prado (Editor)
Publication Date: 2000
Publisher: Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs
ISBN: 0-936388-97-8
Binding Format: Trade Cloth; Pages: xiv+238 pp.; 6 x 9 in.
Price: $21.95  
     CONTENTS:   “La casa de los celos and the 1605 Quijote,” John J. Allen; “Redressing Dorotea,” Anne J. Cruz; “Ekphrasis and Eros in Cervantes’ La Galatea: The Case of the Blushing Nymphs,” Frederick A. De Armas; “Of Piracy and Plackets: Cervantes’ La señora Cornelia and Fletcher’s The Chances,” Diana De Armas Wilson; “Guzmán de Alfarache, Don Quijote, and the Subject of the Novel,” Edward Friedman; “ ‘Cuando Ilegué cautivo’: Trauma and Testimony in El trato de Argel,” Maria Antonia Garcés; “Truth, Lies, and Representation: The Crux of ‘El curioso impertinente,’” E. Michael Gerli; “Don Quijote, Dulcinea, and Unamuno’s Theology,” Javier Herrero; “Bakhtin, Spanish Literature, and Cervantes,” Howard Mancing; “ ‘El curioso impertinente’ y el sentido del Quijote,” Ciriaco Morón Arroyo; “Herostratus: Notes on the Cult of Fame in Cervantes,” Geoffrey Ribbans; “Elective Affinities: Walter Scott and Miguel de Cervantes,” Robert ter Horst; “The Courtier and the Hero: Sprezzatura from Castiglione to Cervantes,” Howard Wescott; “For Edward Dudley, a Bouquet of Aperçus; Lapidary Reflections on Don Quijote,” Karl-Ludwig Selig.
     Documentación cervantina, No 18

 

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