Don Quixote: A Touchstone for Literary Criticism (review)

2006 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-537
Author(s):  
Denise M. DiPuccio
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Don Quixote

Literature in Our Time, or, Loving Literature to Bits

CounterText ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Callus
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Anthony Trollope ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
Time Machine ◽  
Paul Auster ◽  
Anne Michaels

In this essay Ivan Callus provides some reflections on literature in the present. He considers the tenability of the post-literary label and looks at works that might be posited as having some degree of countertextual affinity. The essay, while not setting itself up as a creative piece, deliberately structures itself unconventionally. It frames its argument within twenty-one sections that are self-contained but that also echo each other in their attempt to develop an overarching argument which draws out some of the challenges that lie before the countertextual and the post-literary. Punctuating the essay and contributing to its unconventional take on the practice of literary criticism is a series of exercises for the reader to complete, if so wished; the essay makes no attempt, however, to suggest that a countertextual criticism ought to make a routine of such devices. The separate sections contain reflections on a number of texts and writers, among them, and in order of appearance, Hamlet, Anthony Trollope, Jacques Derrida, The Time Machine, Don Quixote, Mark Z. Danielewski, Mark B. N. Hansen, Gunter Kress, Scott's Reliquiae Trotcosienses, W. B. Yeats, Kate Tempest, David Jones, Anne Michaels, Bernice Eisenstein, Paul Auster, J. M. Coetzee, Billy Collins, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Tim Parks, Tom McCarthy – and Hamlet again. The essay's length fulfils a performative function but also facilitates as extensive a catalogue of aspects of the countertextual in literature and elsewhere as is feasible or as might be dared at this stage.

scholarly journals María Zambrano y la quimera

2021 ◽  
pp. 173-200
Author(s):  
Pablo Muñoz Covarrubias
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
Benito Perez Galdos ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Miguel De Cervantes ◽  
Maria Zambrano ◽  
Benito Pérez Galdós ◽  
Special Space ◽  
The Way

María Zambrano and the Chimera During her career as a philosopher, writer and thinker, María Zambrano once and again portrayed literature as a special space for her research. In that sense, she investigated the principal traits belonging to the razón poética in several genres such as poetry and fiction. The purpose of the following pages is to investigate the way in which she read and recreated literary works chiefly by Miguel de Cervantes and Benito Pérez Galdós. Her literary criticism is anchored to metaphoric symbolism. One of her most recurrent symbols is the chimera. The chimera becomes an indispensable and ambiguous image in her analysis of Don Quixote and Misericordia. Key Words: María Zambrano, Literary Criticism, Razón Poética, Cervantes, Pérez Galdós

scholarly journals ON THE NARRATOR IN MADAME BOVARY

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-71
Author(s):  
Vasilii TOLMATCHOFF
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
King Lear ◽  
Full Detail ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Madame Bovary

The paper written in polemics with the truisms of the Soviet literary criticism (identification of Flaubert with his narrator in Madame Bovary , Flaubert’s critical realism etc.) analyses in full detail a figure of the narrator in this novel, his methods of self-presentation, motives of narration, narrative metamorphoses. A particular attention is given to analysis of the narrator’s “we”, “nous”, “madness” and to the related images of “lie”, “mask”, negative search for Absolute, the embodiment and symbol of which in the novel is death, non-being. In context of lie, the characters of the novel, in-cluding Homais, are not opposed to each other but are the continuation of the narrator’s projections as well as of Flaubert’s personal views on writing. The paper actualises intertextuality of the novel corresponded with images of Saint Anthony, Don Quixote, King Lear, Hamlet and also of quest, fulfilled in a tradition of some apothetical mysticism or gnosticism.

scholarly journals A Comparative Overview Between the Duo Characters of Don Quixote Dela Mancha and the Rise and Fall of Comrade Zylo

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. p19
Author(s):  
Admira Nushi
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
La Mancha ◽  
Literary Figure

Cervantes’ influence in Albanian literature has not been studied much by Albanian literary criticism, but there is still a lot of interest in finding the traces that literature leaves in another literature, revealing the reciprocal communication between them. Cervantes’ influence with Don Quixote of La Mancha the work of the Albanian famous writer Dritëro Agolli, The Rise and Fall of Comrade Zylo, which conveys the actualization of two archetypal characters of the work of Cervantes in the Albanian literature. The study of Cervantes’ grotesque occupies an important role in the analyses the Albanian literary criticism makes to Quixote. This literary figure is closely related to the creativity of many Albanian writers in the years of dictatorship, and grotesque is considered as a direct influence of Cervantes. Don Quixote of La Mancha is not considered timeless only because the fact that after centuries it continues to be published, read, translated into new languages, but most importantly, we think that literature does not stop being influenced by Don Quixote of La Mancha.

Humor in der Therapie. Lachend auf Distanz gehen, Ängste lachend besiegen

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-157
Author(s):  
Gudrun Hofmann
Keyword(s):  
Don Quixote ◽  
Miguel De Cervantes ◽  
Don Quijote ◽  
Richard Strauss ◽  
Sancho Panza

Zusammenfassung. Don Quijote und Sancho Panza, von Miguel de Cervantes Saavedras 1605/1612 geschaffene Romanhelden, erfreuen sich auch im Jahre 2003 eines großen Bekanntheitsgrades und sind als komisches Paar berühmt geworden. Beide verstricken sich in Abenteuer, die einzig ihrer Fantasie erwachsen. Im folgenden steht das Komische - aus nicht der Norm entsprechendem Verhalten oder aus wahnhaften Imaginationen erwachsend - in der literarischen Vorgabe wie auch in dem sinfonischen Tongedicht “Don Quixote“ von Richard Strauss im Mittelpunkt. Daran schließen sich Überlegungen zu einer tänzerischen Umsetzung im Rahmen eines therapeutischen Settings an. Es wird analysiert, wie sich Menschen mit unterschiedlichen Persönlichkeitszügen (resp. -störungen) darin wiederfinden können und wie die Charaktere von Don Quijote und Sancho Panza im Sinne einer eigenen Interpretation weiterentwickelt werden können. Aspekte der von Helmut Plessner vertretenen anthropologischen Betrachtungsweise des Lachens beleuchten die nur dem Menschen eigene Fähigkeit komisch zu sein und Komisches wahrzunehmen.

Szasz on Drugs: Don Quixote in the Pharmacy.

1976 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 679-680
Author(s):  
RONALD K. SIEGEL
Keyword(s):  
Don Quixote

Don Quixote or Don Quijote.

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Labbate ◽  
Cilantro ◽  
Cervantes
Keyword(s):  
Don Quixote ◽  
Don Quijote

From Deleuze and Guattari's Words to a Deleuzian Theory of Reading

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-557
Author(s):  
Daniel Haines
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Transcendental Empiricism ◽  
Theory Of Reading ◽  
Open Question

While Deleuze and Guattari's passion for certain literature is well known, the nature of a ‘Deleuzian’ literary criticism remains an open question. However, most critics appear to agree that Deleuze and Guattari's comments on meaning and interpretation offer an ontological alternative to the textual focus of deconstruction. Through an interrogation of the difficult style of their books in relation to Plato, Nietzsche and Derrida, this paper offers a different reading of Deleuze and Guattari in relation to literary criticism. Despite appearances, transcendental empiricism and the project of ‘overturning Platonism’ provide a Deleuzian theory of reading that attends to textuality.

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