The Long Shadow of Don Quixote
2015
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
978-3-631-66653-1 (ISBN)
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
978-3-631-66653-1 (ISBN)
The book argues that Don Quixote and Quixotism are relevant to cultural studies. Changing interpretations of Don Quixote reveal cultural dynamics, and Quixotism is value-loaded. The soaring humanistic interest in Don Quixote stems from the experience of 20th-century totalitarianisms. Quixotism's pivotal facets are now bibliomania and evil.
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.
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.
Magdalena Barbaruk lectures at the University of Wrocław. She researches the culture of Spanish-speaking countries and the cultural potential of literature.
Contents: Quixotism - Research Tools: The Reader, the Book and the World - The Names of Don Quixote - Bibliomania: The Adventure of Reading - Quixotism and Evil.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.12.2015 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance ; 3 |
| Verlagsort | Berlin |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 480 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Schlagworte | Barbaruk • Culture • Humanities • Kocur • Long • Magdalena • Miroslaw • Patrycja • Poniatowska • quixote • Quixotism • shadow • translated • Values |
| ISBN-10 | 3-631-66653-5 / 3631666535 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-631-66653-1 / 9783631666531 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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