Law and History in Cervantes' Don Quixote is a deep consideration of the intellectual environment that gave rise to Cervantes' seminal work. Susan Byrne demonstrates how Cervantes synthesized the debates surrounding the two most authoritative discourses of his era - those of law and history - into a new aesthetic product, the modern vel. Byrne uncovers the empirical underpinnings of Don Quixote through a close philological study of Cervantes' sly questioning of and commentary on these fields. As she skilfully demonstrates, while sixteenth-century historiographers and jurists across southern Europe sought the philosophical nexus of their fields, Cervantes created one through the adventures of a protagonist whose history is all about justice. As such, Law and History in Cervantes' Don Quixote illustrates how Cervantes' art highlighted the inconsistencies of juridical-historical texts and practice, as well as anticipated the ultimate resolution of their paradoxes.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
ISBN-10
1442626402
ISBN-13
9781442626409
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189445741
Product Key Features
Author
Susan Byrne
Format
Trade Paperback (US), Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Literary Criticism
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Toronto
Series Title
Toronto Iberic
Content Note
8
Author Biography
Susan Byrne is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University.