... responsiveness to others are one and the same—a commitment that must be translated into worldly action and exposure. The genres of the picaresque, the quixotic, and the Joban fable will, the novels indicate, allow us to imagine that translation better than the literary traditions that emphasize ethical...

... Madrid, 2004, 154pp., 21 x 15 cm. Rustica Among the many books that have been published lately in Spain as part of the quartercentennial of Cervantes' Don Quixote, this essay stands out because of the timeliness of its aim: to explain how the clearly-comical Quixote of the seventeenth...

... States. The letters can be read in any order. Castillo provides three suggested reading paths (for the conformist, the cynic, and the quixotic) in addition to encouraging readers to choose their own routes through the novel. Castillo develops an intimate epistolary world between two friends...

... philosophical arguments concerning a standard of taste bracket a series of chapters on Austen's Mansfield Park, Richardson's Clarissa and Rousseau's Julie ou La Nouvelle Helo'ise, Mackenzie's Julia de Roubigne, and Lennox's The Female Quixote. Marshall's title metaphor of the frame allows him...

... and second and third, a record of the movement of time. As Aristotle observes, time itself is a kind of number not move- ment, but only movement in so far as it admits of enumeration (1941: 292, book 4, chap. 11). The link between numbers and narrative appears already in Don Quixote when Sancho...

... of behavior” (86) and therefore reveal how fictionality can be used to cultivate salutary reading habits—especially for women. Once again, most of the primary texts in this chapter are familiarly classified as novelistic fictions— The Female American , Female Quixotism , Momina; or, The Beggar Girl...

... . Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press . Blake Susan L. 1974 . “The Spectatorial Artist and the Structure of Cane.” CLA Journal 17 . 4 : 516 – 34 . Borges Jorge Luis . 1964 . “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote.” In Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings...

... Weil and Wolfe prove to be perceptive and engaged readers with a firm grasp of Ellison's dominant themes of entrapment, isolation, and the quixotic struggle to act for good. They are pri- marily concerned, however, not with analyzing the texts themselves but with the "literary and historical...

..., and not to be missed by any- one interested in early modern and Enlightenment literature, history, and natural philosophy. Aaron R. Hanlon is assistant professor of English and interim director of the Science, Technology, and Society program at Colby College. His first book is A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote...

... of Don Quixote, which shaped the English novel through Henry Fielding. While Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) stands as the first full modern novel, uniting the three attributes of contemporaneity, verisimilitude, and philosophical significance, Richardson's epistolary domestic- romance...

... [thus] represented a suitable and even an exemplary reflection of his educational situation, rather than any quixotic subversion of conventions” (131). But studying Wilde's notework also helps explain why epigrammatic expression assumes sinister dimensions in The Picture of Dorian Gray , as Reader...

... ambiguously “stands for hope.” But the hero under- stands “hope not being hope / until all cause for hope has / vanished” (8 – 9). Moore had thought of El Greco in connection with the idea of the hero well before she wrote the poem. In a 1928 review of Miguel de Unamuno’s book on Don Quixote, one...

... and that by doing so probes into the problematic relationship between real-seeming artifice and reality"(x). Such fiction includes works ranging from canonical, proto-modern- ist novels (e.g., Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote, Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Dennis Diderot's Jacques the Fatalist and His...

... Sherry Levine? Or what if I download the entire Entroducing album and then release it under my own name? As Borges said, regarding the man who reproduces a fragment of Don Quixote: "The text of Cervantes and that of Menard are verbally identical, but the second is almost infinitely richer...

... materials with which to work. There is an oblique reference to this theme in the title of Toad the Wet Sprocket's 1994 album, Dulcinea, which can only be taken as a reference to the delusional creation of beauty out of nothingness in the mind of that knight of the woeful countenance, Don Quixote...

... the United States and particular countries in Europe, he claims to “know of only seven: Dante's Commedia , Rabelais’ five books of Gargantua and Pantagruel, Cervantes’ Don Quixote , Goethe's Faust , Melville's Moby-Dick , Joyce's Ulysses , and now, I believe, Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow .” Lesson...

... 2016 by University of Oklahoma 80 GENRE work.2 Reviewing Betrayed by Rita Hayworth for the New York Times, Alexan- der Coleman (1971) accurately describes Puig’s characters as proto-­Bovarys and proto-­Quixotes who “live only for the screen.” “Naturally,” he remarks...

..., of Jorge Luis Borges's "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote," which is a key intertext for Danielewski, R.M. Koster's The Dissertation (1975), or David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (19962 But the book that might come immediately to mind is Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire (1962), a novel which takes...

... been erased — an ideal that curiously mimics Keats’s praise of the urn as “above” “all breathing human passion.” Hill- man classes such attempts as quixotic, however attractive; neither syntax, nor the humanizing illusion of love, is going to disappear. At the same time, the act of “put[ting...

... quixotic at best. Again, there is intention, and there is reception, and sometimes the twain do not meet. A passionate defense of satire’s legitimacy and value in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo shootings came in Justin E. H. Smith’s (2015) article “Why Satire Matters” in the Chronicle...