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Adventures in paradox : Don Quixote and the western tradition / Charles D. Presberg

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Presberg, Charles D.
Published
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001.
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1 online resource (250 pages).
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Front Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Paradoxical Problems -- Part I: Western Paradox and the Spanish Golden Age -- 1. Paradoxical Discourse from Antiquity to the Renaissance: Plato, Nicolaus, Cusanus, and Erasmus -- 2. Paradoxy and the Spanish Renaissance: Fernando de Rojas, Antonio de Guevara, and Pero Mexia -- Part II: Inventing a Tale, Inventing a Self -- 3. ""This Is Not a Prologue"": Paradoxy and the Prologue to Don Quixote Part I -- 4. Paradoxes of Imitation: The Quest for Origins and Originality and 5. ""I Know Who I Am"": Don Quixote de la Mancha, Don Diego de Miranda, and the Paradox of Self-Knowledge -- Concluding Remarks -- Works Cited -- Index -- Back Cover
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ISBN
9780271072234 (electronic bk.)
0271072237 (electronic bk.)
0271020393 (alk. paper)
9780271020396 (alk. paper)
0271023643
9780271023649
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245) and index.
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