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  Don Quixote among the Saracens [electronic resource] : a clash of civilizations and literary genres

  Author

  De Armas, Frederick Alfred.  

  Publisher:

  University of Toronto Press,

  Pub date:

  2011.

  Pages:

  xvi, 237 pages :

  ISBN:

  9781442643451

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  Don Quixote among the Saracens [electronic resource] : a clash of civilizations and literary genres
  De Armas, Frederick Alfred.
  

  ISBN:

  9781442643451

  ISBN:

  1442643455

  Personal Author:

  De Armas, Frederick Alfred.

  Title:

  Don Quixote among the Saracens [electronic resource] : a clash of civilizations and literary genres / Frederick A. de Armas.

  Publication Info:

  Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2011.

  Physical descrip:

  xvi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

  Contents:

  I. Pillars of Genre/Ghosts of Empire: An Introduction -- II. A Pythagorean Parody of Chivalry -- III. Questioning Quaternities -- IV. An Arab's Audacious Pastoral -- V. Magics of the Defeated -- VI. Clues to a Narrative -- VII. Greek Interlace -- Italian Interweaving -- VIII. Palinurus and the Pleiades -- IX. Don Quixote among the Saracens -- X. Thymos and its Chariot

  Summary:

  "The fictional Don Quixote was constantly defeated in his knightly adventures. In writing Quixote's story, however, Miguel Cervantes succeeded in a different kind of quest - the creation of a modern novel that 'conquers' and assimilates countless literary genres. Don Quixote among the Saracens considers how Cervantes's work reflects the clash of civilizations and anxieties towards cultural pluralism that permeated Golden Age Spain.

  Summary:

  Frederick A. de Armas unravels an essential mystery of one of world literature's best known figures: why Quixote sets out to revive knight errantry, and why he comes to feel at home only among the Moorish 'Saracens,' a people whom Quixote feared at the beginning of the novel. De Armas also reveals Quixote's inner conflicts as both a Christian who vows to battle the infidel, but also a secret Saracen sympathizer. While delving into genre theory, Don Quixote among the Saracens adds a new dimension to our understandings of Spain's multicultural history."--pub. desc.

  Personal subject:

  Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.

  Personal subject:

  Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616--Technique.

  Subject term:

  Saracens in literature.

  Subject term:

  Culture conflict in literature.

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