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Don Quixote's new world of language.
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WHAT IS IT THAT has given Cervantes' burlesque history of one particularly Ingenious Hidalgo its irresistible magnetic pull? Such a question is likely to have as many answers as Don Quixote has had admirers. Yet, major differences in scholarly interest and critical conviction notwithstanding, a very large number of readers seem to agree that one secret to this book's longevity can be found in its extraordinary way with language. (1)
Such was the experience of the book's ...
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When the exception is the rule: Don Quixote as incitement to literature
Comparative Literature
; LIKE ALL CLASSICS, Don Quixote has a certain power to incite terminological derangements: "perspectivism" for Leo Spitzer, "extraspection" for Americo Castro (28), "triangular desire" for Rene Girard (52), and a "heteroglot and internally dialogized novelistic discourse" for Bakhtin (324). Nor are
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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'QUIXOTE' A BEGUILING TILT AT WINDMILLS.(AT HOME)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
; Don Quixote had Sancho Panza. John Lithgow, even luckier, had buddies like actor Bob Hoskins and megaproducer Robert Halmi Sr. join his quest to bring Cervantes' classic tale to television. The result is ''Don Quixote a beguiling, 2 1/2-hour TNT movie (8 p.m. Sunday) which Lithgow co-produced and
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A knight to remember; John Lithgow rocks in role of Don Quixote, but everyone else is only along for the ride.(Arts and Lifestyle)
The Boston Herald
; ... wonders that others literally cannot see, he plays the frazzled dreamer to a T. Lithgow's sound performance is the good news. The bad news is that he is the only one holding this movie together. His supporting cast is woefully underutilized; scriptwriter ...
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Dostoevsky's other Quixote.(influence of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote on Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot)
Studies in the Humanities
; The influence of Cervantes' Don Quixote on Dostoevsky's The Idiot is well documented and profound. As Dostoevsky's character Aglaia Epanchin explains, Prince Myshkin is Quixote, only serious and not comic (The Idiot 241; pt.2, ch.6). But while Myshkin replicates both the Don's idealistic quest to
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 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Discovery, adventure, deeds, fame, truth, justice 'Don Quixote' searches for all of it and comes up a bit short.(Time Out!)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
; A classic, Mark Twain wrote, is a book everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. While I usually take offense to that usage when it's applied to what I regard as classics, I have to admit it describes Don Quixote de la Mancha. Miguel de Cervantes' early 17th-century novel has certainly
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