The Long Shadow of Don Quixote

ISBN-13: 9783631666531 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 288 str.

Magdalena Barbaruk

Opis

The author traces the resurgence of Don Quixote in the contemporary humanities. In the aftermath of World War II, the figure underwent the most radical re-interpretation since Romanticism. These changes speak volumes about our culture. Drawing on the theoretical framework of the specifically Polish variety of cultural studies, this book makes Don Quixote a patron of cultural reflection. With culture conceptualised as performative, Quixotism is the cultivation of the soul, an axiotic space which forms human ways of life across epochs. In this way, the history of culture can be re-written as a history of values frenzy, bibliomania or evil.

Spis treści

Contents: Quixotism - Research Tools: The Reader, the Book and the World - The Names of Don Quixote - Bibliomania: The Adventure of Reading - Quixotism and Evil.

O autorze

Magdalena Barbaruk lectures at the University of Wroclaw. She researches the culture of Spanish-speaking countries and the cultural potential of literature.