Adventures in Paradox
Subtitle: Don Quixote and the Western Tradition (Penn State Studies in Romance Literatures)
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780271023649
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Spanish; European - Spanish & Portuguese; General
Description: "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 cannonical of Spanish literary texts." "This book will be welcomed by literary scholars, Hispanisists, historians, and students of the history of rhetoric and poetics."--BOOK JACKET.