Miguel de Cervantes
Writing at a time when the concept of a novel was still relatively new, Cervantes created a masterpiece, Don Quixote (part 1, 1605; part 2, 1615), whose main character remains one of the most well-developed comic figures in literature, forever remembered for his chasing of windmills and his teaming with the more down-to-earth and, for the most part loyal, sidekick whom he casts as his squire. The work parodies the chivalric romance, satirizes other forms and ideas, and comments on madness, humor, idealism, and illusion. Aside from Don Quixote, Cervantes wrote other works, exploring a range of forms such as pastoral romance, poetry, short story, and drama-but to this day, Don Quixote remains his most celebrated work. A view of its significance was stated by the critic Lionel Trilling, who declared that "all modern fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote."
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Miguel de Cervantes
Writing at a time when the concept of a novel was still relatively new, Cervantes created a masterpiece, Don Quixote (part 1, 1605; part 2, 1615), whose main character remains one of the most well-developed comic figures in literature, forever remembered for his chasing of windmills and his teaming with the more down-to-earth and, for the most part loyal, sidekick whom he casts as his squire. The work parodies the chivalric romance, satirizes other forms and ideas, and comments on madness, humor, idealism, and illusion. Aside from Don Quixote, Cervantes wrote other works, exploring a range of forms such as pastoral romance, poetry, short story, and drama-but to this day, Don Quixote remains his most celebrated work. A view of its significance was stated by the critic Lionel Trilling, who declared that "all modern fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote."
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Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Writing at a time when the concept of a novel was still relatively new, Cervantes created a masterpiece, Don Quixote (part 1, 1605; part 2, 1615), whose main character remains one of the most well-developed comic figures in literature, forever remembered for his chasing of windmills and his teaming with the more down-to-earth and, for the most part loyal, sidekick whom he casts as his squire. The work parodies the chivalric romance, satirizes other forms and ideas, and comments on madness, humor, idealism, and illusion. Aside from Don Quixote, Cervantes wrote other works, exploring a range of forms such as pastoral romance, poetry, short story, and drama-but to this day, Don Quixote remains his most celebrated work. A view of its significance was stated by the critic Lionel Trilling, who declared that "all modern fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780791081167
Publisher: Facts on File, Incorporated
Publication date: 03/28/2005
Series: Bloom's BioCritiques Series
Pages: 112
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 7 - 12 Years

About the Author

About The Author
One of our most popular, respected, and controversial literary critics, Yale University professor Harold Bloom's books -- about, variously, Shakespeare, the Bible, and the classic literature -- are as erudite as they are accessible.

Hometown:

New York, New York and New Haven, Connecticut

Date of Birth:

July 11, 1930

Date of Death:

October 14, 2019

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Education:

B.A., Cornell University, 1951; Ph.D., Yale University, 1955

Table of Contents

Editor's Notevii
Introduction1
Knighthood Compromised7
Madness and Mystery: The Exemplarity of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares37
Ideals and Illusions63
Don Quixote, Ulysses, and the Idea of Realism79
Cervantes and the Novelization of Drama: Tradition and Innovation in the Entremeses101
Plot and Agency123
Poetry as Autobiography145
The Galatea171
Don Quixote of La Mancha191
The Two Projects of the Quixote and the Grotesque as Mode225
Picaresque Elements in Cervantes's Works243
Introduction to Don Quixote263
Cervantes's Method and Meaning277
Chronology301
Contributors303
Bibliography307
Acknowledgments311
Index313
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