Adventures in Paradox: Don Quixote and the Western Tradition

by Charles D. Presberg

Cervantes's Don Quixote confronts us with a series of enigmas that, over the centuries, have divided even its most expert readers: Does the text pursue a serious or comic purpose? Does it promote the truth of history and the untruth of fiction, or the truth of poetry and the fictiveness of truth itself? In a book that will revise the way we read and debate Don Quixote, Charles D. Presberg discusses the trope of paradox as a governing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271023643
• ISBN13: 9780271023649
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"