Year: 1969
Type: article
Abstract: the scholar most often cited; Unamuno is presented as "the great critic" who epitomizes most Spanish criticism on Don Quixote (p.xiv); Américo Castro is nowhere even mentioned!Serious consequences flow from these bibliographical limitations.One example is the treat- ment of the picaresque in relation to Cervantes' work.In her introduction Professor Church states: "Don Quixote is not a picaro, nor is Cer- vantes' novel picaresque in any definitive sense" (p.xv).On page 68 she characterizes the 1605 Quixote like this: "The book itself can be judged a highly amusing yet thoughtful picaresque tale."A little later she concludes that Book II "shows the book in the final an- alysis to be the purest example of the tragic genre and not, as Book I would have us believe ... the purest of picaresque comedies permeated with a pathos felt mainly, I suspect, by
Source: Renaissance and Reformation
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4297965668