Adventures in Paradox : Don Quixote and the Western Tradition
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 its...
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Penn State University Press
2001
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