In Forms of Modernity, Rachel Schmidt examines how seminal theorists and philosophers have wrestled with the status of Cervantes' Don Quixote is as an 'exemplary novel', in turn contributing to the emergence of key concepts within genre theory.
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Tapa suave
Número de Páginas
426
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Inglés
Editorial
University of Toronto Press
Fecha de Publicación
2021-07-26
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9.0" x 6.0" x 0.95" pulgadas
Serie
University of Toronto Romance (Hardcover)
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No
Con Ilustraciones
No
Descripción
It's a critical cliché that Cervantes' Don Quixote is the first modern novel, but this distinction raises two fundamental questions. First, how does one define a novel? And second, what is the relationship between this genre and understandings of modernity? In Forms of Modernity, Rachel Schmidt examines how seminal theorists and philosophers have wrestled with the status of Cervantes' masterpiece as an 'exemplary novel', in turn contributing to the emergence of key concepts within genre theory.
Schmidt's discussion covers the views of well-known thinkers such as Friedrich Schlegel, José Ortega y Gasset, and Mikhail Bakhtin, but also the pivotal contributions of philosophers such as Hermann Cohen and Miguel de Unamuno. These theorists' examinations of Cervantes's fictional knight errant character point to an ever-shifting boundary between the real and the virtual. Drawing from both intellectual and literary history, Forms of Modernity richly explores the development of the categories and theories that we use today to analyze and understand novels.
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Formato
Tapa dura
Número de Páginas
384
Lenguaje
Inglés
Editorial
University of Toronto Press
Fecha de Publicación
2011-03-30
Dimensiones
9.0" x 6.3" x 1.4" pulgadas
Serie
University of Toronto Romance
Letra Grande
No
Con Ilustraciones
No
Acerca del Autor
Schmidt, Rachel
Rachel Schmidt is a professor in the Department of French, Italian and Spanish at the University of Calgary.
Forms of Modernity: Don Quixote and Modern Theories of the Novel
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