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- Title: Hearing Voices of Satire in Don Quixote.
- Author : Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 217 KB
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JAMES PARR'S DON QUIXOTE: A Touchstone for Literary Criticism (1) offers a slightly revised and expanded version of his Don Quixote: Ah Anatomy of Subversive Discourse (1988) as well as two appendices devoted, respectively, to selected book reviews that Parr wrote before and after this book's original version. The new title of this book expresses two large claims: one explicit, the other tacit. I predict that the explicit one, however large, will spark little controversy from readers of this journal: namely, that Don Quixote is a touchstone for criticism on narrative fiction. The tacit claim of Parr's title--never stated but developed throughout his text--strikes me as far bolder" namely, that both versions of Parr's book jointly represent a touchstone for criticism on Cervantes' Don Quixote. This inference follows not only from Parr's assertion that his Anatomy has become over the course of seventeen years "something of a classic in its own right" (8) but also his stated purpose to enderezar the exegetical tuertos of other critics, or to embark on a solitary "quest to re-orient the Quixotic Establishment" (x).