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Discovering the Comic in Don Quixote

Part of the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series
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Gorfkle challenges the assumption that the comic is inferior to the tragic as a vehicle for expressing serious thought and the belief that the comic has only a secondary function in Cervantes's Don Quixote.

She systematically surveys the comic mechanisms of the novel from the perspectives of the contemporary literary theories of Bakhtin, Girard, and Derrida.

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1469642743 / 9781469642741
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
15/03/2018
English
225 pages
152 x 229 mm
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