Don Quixote

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

Slav N. Gratchev and Howard Mancing

2018
308 pages
ISBN 9781611488579

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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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...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."
- E. H. Friedman, Vanderbilt University; CHOICE, 55.9 (May 2018)

"The range and variety of the entries in this collection will please and surprise seasoned Don Quixote scholars as well as anyone interested in the novel...The book is both a pleasure and a revelation."
- Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Volume XCVI, No. 4

About the authors:

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

Howard Mancing is professor of Spanish at Purdue University.

Distributed by Bloomsbury (formerly by Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group)

Paperback: 9781611488593 ; eBook: 9781611488586