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Don Quixote and the Invention of the Modern Novel «Tilting at Windmills Tilting at Windmills
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Don Quixote and the Invention of the Modern Novel. Monday, Jul 30 2007. So, I’ve finally knight-erranted my way to the end of the first part of. I’m not quite at the mid-point of my copy yet (I have about 50 pages to go) but very nearly.Is it too much to say I’m proud of myself? And its place in the history of literature. Of course, I’m familiar with the idea that. Anthony J. Cascardi addresses the ‘invention of the novel’ idea in an essay of the same name in the. Cambridge Companion to Cervantes. How co...
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Storytelling «Tilting at Windmills Tilting at Windmills
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Sunday, Jun 10 2007. Book I: Ch. 32 to 35. I really got a kick out of reading Chapter 32, the one mentioned above about the merits of chivalric romances; when the priest tells the story of how these romances turned DQ’s brain, the innkeeper launches into a defense of them:. Even the priest, trying hard to teach the innkeeper how to be a more sophisticated reader, ends up mixing fact and fiction, real life and literature himself. So when the priest tries to lecture the innkeeper on the uses of chivalric l...
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2007 August «Tilting at Windmills Tilting at Windmills
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Monday, Aug 20 2007. Book I: Ch. 15 to 21. And Book I: Prologue to Ch. 8. I finished the first part of. O thou, whosoever thou art, rash knight, who cometh to touch the armor of the most valiant knight who e’er girded on a sword! Lookest thou to what thou dost and toucheth it not, if thou wanteth not to leave thy life in payment for thy audacity. Help me, Senora, in this the first affront aimed at this thy servant’s bosom; in this my first challenge letteth not thy grace and protection fail me. I am goin...
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Historical Timeline: Spain, 1510-1616 «Tilting at Windmills Tilting at Windmills
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Historical Timeline: Spain, 1510-1616. Monday, Apr 30 2007. I’ve put together a quick and dirty timeline of major political, religious, and literary events leading up to and including the life of Miguel de Cervantes. I included some events involving Spain’s arch-enemy, England, and left out most of Spain’s despicable activities in the New World (I would be surprised if most Spaniards were very much aware of them). 1510 Spain begins massive extraction of gold from New World. 1519 Cortez lands in Mexico.
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2007 September «Tilting at Windmills Tilting at Windmills
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Don Quixote and Melancholy. Wednesday, Sep 5 2007. On the heels of finishing the first part of Miguel de Cervantes’. I came across this interesting passage, from Peter D. Kramer’s. The Renaissance sustained several simultaneous traditions of melancholy. Cervantes began his literary career with a long pastoral poem, full of pining and tearful shepherds suffering from unrequited love. In the case of insanity,. What it is to us. Was the hero’s loneliness and alienation from his fellows. Don Quixote and the ...
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The secret of making long stories short «Tilting at Windmills Tilting at Windmills
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The secret of making long stories short. Tuesday, Jun 19 2007. One of the books I’m reading is a book by Beongcheon Yu that focuses on Natsume Soseki’s academic and fictional works. Natsume was an early 20th century Japanese intellectual and his approach to Western literature was consciously from a Japanese outlook and more specifically based in his particular ideas about what principles govern literature. I thought that his take on Defoe’s fiction could be applied to. June 19, 2007 at 2:26 pm. I probabl...
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On finishing Don Quixote «Tilting at Windmills Tilting at Windmills
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On finishing Don Quixote. Sunday, Aug 19 2007. Most of this post will be about the second half of. And the ending, so if you don’t want to hear about it, you might want to save this post for later. I loved the way the second part of the novel became a kind of commentary on the first (is this what people are talking about when they say that everything comes together in the second half? About the novel’s ending: it is so sad! On finishing Don Quixote. August 27, 2007 at 11:31 am. October 5, 2007 at 2:20 pm.
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This sagacious knight at the inn. Friday, Jun 8 2007. Book I: Ch. 15 to 21. Once again we meet with other characters who have illusions. Though DQ is regarded as having lost his wits for his, so many other characters accept their own illusions for reality. In explaining to the landlady of the inn what has befallen them, Sancho says. 8220;…I was so infected, by seeing my master tumble, that my whole body akes as much as if I had been cudgelled without mercy.”. The point may be that everyone has their own ...
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Getting into the Swing «Tilting at Windmills Tilting at Windmills
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Getting into the Swing. Monday, Jul 16 2007. Book I: Ch. 32 to 35. I’ll admit it. I haven’t been getting along with that gracious knight from La Mancha,. Despite all the wonderful discussion going on, and the headway being made by the rest of the crew at Tilting at Windmills. But, last Saturday, by the end of week 6 of the project, I was still dawdling around page 120. Why? Finally, this weekend in a fit of frustration, I took action. I was going to visit my parents and decided that. Or squished under th...
