IMITACIONES DEL "QUIJOTE" EN LA ESPANA DEL SIGLO XVIII. (SPANISH TEXT).
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Title
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IMITACIONES DEL "QUIJOTE" EN LA ESPANA DEL SIGLO XVIII. (SPANISH TEXT).
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Identifier
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AAI8119674
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identifier
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8119674
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Creator
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SALGADO, LINDA ANN FRIEDMAN.
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Contributor
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Prof. Martin Nozick
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Date
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1981
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Romance
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Abstract
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Spanish imitations of the Quijote in the Eighteenth Century provide a fascinating angle from which to study certain mores and ideas of that century in Spain. These imitations reflect not only the thought and history of eighteenth-century Spain and Europe; in addition, they reveal Spanish attitudes towards Cervantes' masterpiece.;This study goes back to the birth of Cervantine studies in the first half of the century, and surveys its progress, both in works devoted solely to the Quijote, and in other references to it in the books and polemics of the era. We see that in general, men of letters considered the Quijote as a satire of the novels of chivalry, although they also thought that Cervantes had a secondary goal of criticizing certain abuses and customs prevalent in his times.;The imitations of the Quijote underline this eighteenth-century interpretation: the majority present a satire of Spanish life by using either the characters or the format of the original. Their protagonists have lost their senses from reading too many books, and set out, like don Quijote, with a servant-companion, to spread their ridiculous ideas. Like Cervantes' knight errant, they come to their senses in the end.;Using the external trappings of the Quijote, these imitations revolve about all the important issues of the day: religion and Scholasticism, the ideas of the French "philosophes," the French Revolution, the role of the nobility, education of the young, economics, the family, and many others.;We can divide the imitations into two groups: a first consists of continuations which use the characters Cervantes created to effect their satire, and the second embraces true imitations, which use characters invented by the authors to comment on the Eighteenth Century and its problems.;Although the literary value of these imitations does not at all approximate that of the Quijote, their main interest to the twentieth-century reader is the opportunity they offer to study life in eighteenth-century Spain from a much more personal point of view than that of history books.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Spanish
