Don Quixote

The Re-accentuation of the World’s Greatest Literary Hero

Edited by Slav N. Gratchev and Howard Mancing - Contributions by J. A. Garrido Ardila; Bruce R. Burningham; Ricardo Castells; William Childers; Victor Fet; Tatevik Gyulamiryan; Stephen Hessel; Fernando González Moreno; Margarita Marinova; Emilio Martínez Mata; Scott Pollard; Steven Ritz-Barr; Rachel Schmidt; S. Alleyn Smythe; Jonathan Wade; Roy H. Williams and Eduardo Urbina

This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world’s greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. For the first time, Don Quixote is discussed from the point of re-accentuation, i.e. having in mind one of the key Bakhtinian concepts that will serve as a theoretical framework. A primary objective was therefore to articulate, relying on the concept of re-accentuation, that the history of the novel has benefited enormously from the re-accentuation of Don Quixote helping us to shape countless iconic novels from the eighteenth century, and to see how Cervantes’s title character has been reinterpreted to suit the needs of a variety of cultures across time and space.

University Press Copublishing Division / Bucknell University Press

Pages: 308 • Trim: 6 x 8¾

978-1-61148-857-9 • Hardback • November 2017 • $117.00 • (£90.00)

978-1-61148-859-3 • Paperback • May 2019 • $50.99 • (£39.00)

978-1-61148-858-6 • eBook • November 2017 • $48.00 • (£37.00)

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The Re-accentuation of the World’s Greatest Literary Hero

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This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world’s greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. For the first time, Don Quixote is discussed from the point of re-accentuation, i.e. having in mind one of the key Bakhtinian concepts that will serve as a theoretical framework. A primary objective was therefore to articulate, relying on the concept of re-accentuation, that the history of the novel has benefited enormously from the re-accentuation of Don Quixote helping us to shape countless iconic novels from the eighteenth century, and to see how Cervantes’s title character has been reinterpreted to suit the needs of a variety of cultures across time and space.

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University Press Copublishing Division / Bucknell University Press

Pages: 308 • Trim: 6 x 8¾

978-1-61148-857-9 • Hardback • November 2017 • $117.00 • (£90.00)

978-1-61148-859-3 • Paperback • May 2019 • $50.99 • (£39.00)

978-1-61148-858-6 • eBook • November 2017 • $48.00 • (£37.00)

Subjects: Literary Collections / European / Spanish & Portuguese, Literary Criticism / European / Spanish & Portuguese, Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature

Author

Slav N. Gratchev is associate professor of Spanish at Marshall University.
Howard Mancing is professor of Spanish at Purdue University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction by Howard Mancing and Slav N. Gratchev
Part I: Re-accentuation: Theoretical Introduction
Chapter I: On Re-accentuation, Adaptation, and Imitation of Don Quixote by Tatevik Gyulamiryan
Part II: Imagery and Ideology
Chapter 2: Don Quixote Re-depicted by Eduardo Urbina & Fernando González Moreno
Chapter 3: Don Quixote in the Rise of Modern Novel: The Satirical Interpretation by Emilio Martínez Mata
Chapter 4: Don Quixote and the Chivalric Ideal in Classics Illustrated Comics (1941-1971)
by Ricardo Castells
Chapter 5: A Horse of a Different Color: Salvador Dalí and the Re-imagining of Clavileño by S. Alleyn Smythe
Chapter 5: Image not Found: Portraiture, Identity, and the future of Cervantismo by Stephen Hessel
Part III: Literature
Chapter 6: Borges and the Hermeneutics of the Novel by J. A. Garrido Ardila
Chapter 7: World War and the Novel: Responding to Don Quixote in 1914 and 1934 by Rachel Schmidt
Chapter 8: The Don Quixotes of Science Fiction by Howard Mancing
Part IV: Film
Chapter 9: The Art of re-accentuation: Don Quixote by Grigori Kozintsev by Slav N. Gratchev
Chapter 10: Surviving the Hollywood Blacklist: Waldo Salt's adaptation of Don Quixote
by William Childers
Chapter 11: Crouching Squire, Hidden Madman: Ah Gan’s Don Quixote and Postmodern China
by Bruce Burningham
Chapter 12: Amélie as Re-accentuation of Cervantesby Jonathan Wade
Chapter 13: Extracting the Essence of Don Quixote for a Puppet film by Steven Ritz-Barr
Part V: Theater and Television
Chapter 14: The Spanish Knight Among the Soviet People: Dramatic Re-accentuations of Don Quixote as a Doomed Performer by Margarita Marinova & Scott Pollard
Chapter 15: A Russian Lancelot and His Don Quixote by Victor Fet
Part VI: Don Quixote in The New World
Chapter 16: The Visionary’s Quixote by Roy H. Williams
Bibliography
Index
About the Editors

Reviews

The 17 essays in this volume, which also includes an introduction by Gratchev (Marshall Univ.) and Mancing (Purdue Univ.), take as their point of departure the concept of re-accentuation, initially proposed by Mikhail Bakhtin in The Dialogic Imagination (1975; Eng. tr., 1981). The interpretive and analytical openness of key works of prose fiction allow for re-reading and re-imagination in subsequent ages and through different media and approaches. In particular cases, the possibilities seem infinite. A primary example for Bakhtin was Cervantes’s Don Quixote and its eponymous protagonist. The present collection is divided into sections on imagery and ideology, literature, film, and theater and television. The great majority of the contributors are academics (in various fields), but one is a professional puppeteer and another a marketing consultant. A special pleasure of this text lies in the diversity of references and juxtapositions: Doré, Dalí, Fielding, Unamuno, Borges, Thomas Mann, Waldo Salt, Kathy Acker, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the Chinese director Ah Gan, Orhan Pamuk, multiple Russian connections, and so on. The essays are intriguing in their range and methodologies, and they become testaments to the afterlife—what Bakhtin termed the “unfinalizability”—of Don Quixote in both public and artistic spheres. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.
— Choice Reviews

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