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Christopher Britt Arredondo. Quixotism: The Imaginative Denial of Spain's Loss of Empire.(Reseña de libro)

Publication: Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
Publication Date: 22-SEP-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Christopher Britt Arredondo. Quixotism: The Imaginative Denial of Spain's Loss of Empire. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. viii + 266pp. ISBN: 0-7914-6255-2.

Northrop Frye, who is at least marginally present in Christopher Britt Arredondo's Quixotism: The Imaginative of a...

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...Denial Spain's Loss of Empire, spoke in the 1980s of the way in which critics who study the Romantic period had one figure whom they used as Virgilian guide to the movement. Likewise, for the Quixotists, whom literary history customarily considers members of the Generation of 1898, Don Quixote serves asa guide through the national anguish of Spain's loss of empire. Therefore, this book will mostly interest students who wish to explore the relationship between premodern Spain and the later twentieth century and the present. In addition Cervantes scholars will read this work asa study of the ideology of Don Quixote's reception in the late nineteenth and twentieth century.

From the outset, Britt Arredondo boldly denies the validity of the Generation of 1898 as a critical category and groups together...

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