Cervantine Criticism since 2000 and into the Future / List of Cervantes's Works -- List of Contributors -- Note on Translations -- Introduction, Aaron M. Kahn -- 31. BIOGRAPHY. 1. Cervantes's Life / Bruce R. Burningham. 2. Cervantes and Warfare / Stacey Triplette ; 3. Cervantes and Empire / Frederick de Armas ; 4. Cervantes in Captivity / María Antonia Garcés -- SECTION 2: DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA. 5. Don Quixote Part I (1605) / Edwin Williamson ; 6. Don Quixote Part II (1615) / Edwin Williamson ; 7. Quixote and Counter-Quixote: The Cervantes-Avellaneda Duel and Its Impact on the History of the Novel / James Iffland ; 8. Don Quixote de la Mancha's Narrative Structure within the Literary Tradition / Yolanda Iglesias ; 9. Don Quixote: Humour in Philosophy and Philosophy in Humour / Donald Palmer -- SECTION 3: CERVANTES'S PROSE. 10. 'para empresas más altas y de mayor importancia': The rota Virgilii and the Orphic Poet in Miguel de Cervantes's La Galatea (1585) / Benjamin J. Nelson ; 11. Novelas ejemplares (1613) / Barry Ife ; 12. Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda: historia setentrional (1617) / Michael Armstrong-Roche ; 13. Cervantes and Madness / Rachel N. Bauer ; 14. Cervantes and Genre / Brian Brewer -- SECTION 4: CERVANTES THE DRAMATIST. 15. First Writings for the Stage (1580s): Pre-Lopean Success and Failures / David G. Burton ; 16. Ocho comedias (1615) / Melanie Henry ; 17. The Ignominies of Persuasion in Cervantes's Entremeses (1615): An Overview of Cervantine Farce / Carolyn Lukens-Olson ; 18. Cervantes and the comedia nueva / Moisés R. Castillo ; 19. Versification in Cervantes's Drama / Kathleen Jeffs -- SECTION 5: CERVANTES'S POETRY AND OTHER WRITINGS. 20. Cervantine Poetry: History and Context / Adrienne L. Martín ; 21. Confessing on the Move: Viaje del Parnaso and 'Adjunta al Parnaso' (1614) / Esther Fernández Rodríguez ; 22. Attributions and Lost and Promised Works / Aaron M. Kahn -- SECTION 6: SOURCES, INFLUENCES, AND CONTEMPORARIES. 23. Cervantes's Sources and Influences / Stacey Triplette ; 24. Cervantes and Lope de Vega / Jonathan Thacker ; 25. Cervantes and Other Literary Circles / Victoria Ríos Castaño ; 26. Windmills of Reality, Giants of the Imagination: Cervantes in British Literature / Zenón Luis-Martínez ; 27. Cervantes in / on the Americas / Diana de Armas Wilson -- SECTION 7: RECEPTION. 28. Cervantes Biographers / Krzysztof Sliwa ; 29. Cervanes on Screen / Duncan Wheeler ; 30. Cervantine Criticism until 1999 / R. J. Oakley ; 31. Cervantine Criticism since 2000 and into the Future / Bruce R. Burningham.
Summary:
Although best known the world over for his masterpiece novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha, published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, the antics of the would-be knight-errant and his simple squire only represent a fraction of the trials and tribulations, both in the literary world and in society at large, of this complex man. Poet, playwright, soldier, slave, satirist, novelist, political commentator, and literary outsider, Cervantes achieved a minor miracle by becoming one of the rarest of things in the Early-Modern world of letters: an international best-seller during his lifetime, with his great novel being translated into multiple languages before his death in 1616. The principal objective of The Oxford Handbook of Cervantes is to create a resource in English that provides a fully comprehensive overview of the life, works, and influences of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616). This volume contains seven sections, exploring in depth Cervantes's life and how the trials, tribulations, and hardships endured influenced his writing. Cervantistas from numerous countries, including the United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland, the United States, Canada, and France offer their expertise with the most up-to-date research and interpretations to complete this wide-ranging, but detailed, compendium of a writer not known for much other than his famous novel outside of the Spanish-speaking world. Here we explore his famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha, his other prose works, his theatrical output, his poetry, his sources, influences, and contemporaries, and finally reception of his works over the last four hundred years. -- Publisher description.
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