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Don Quixote and Catholicism by Michael Mcgrath

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Don Quixote continues to inspire and to challenge its readers. The universal appeal of the novel, however, has distanced its hero from its author and its author from his own life. This discussion of the novel's Catholic identity, therefore, returns Cervantes's hero to Cervantes's text and Cervantes to the events that shaped his life.

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Don Quixote and Catholicism by Michael Mcgrath

Don Quixote continues to inspire and to challenge its readers. The universal appeal of the novel, however, has distanced its hero from its author and its author from his own life. This discussion of the novel's Catholic identity, therefore, returns Cervantes's hero to Cervantes's text and Cervantes to the events that shaped his life.
Michael J. McGrath is a professor of Spanish at Georgia Southern University and a corresponding fellow of the San Quirce Royal Academy of History and Art in Segovia, Spain. His research focuses on early modern Spanish life and literature, with special emphasis on cultural studies, the comedia, Don Quixote, and intellectual history. He is the author of more than sixty publications, including two books based on archival research, La vida urbana en Segovia: Historia de una ciudad barroca en sus documentos and Teatro y fiesta en la ciudad de Segovia (siglos XVIII y XIX); the first English translation of Spanish priest Ruy López's chess treatise from 1561 titled The Art of the Game of Chess; editions of four of Miguel de Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares; plays by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, María de Zayas, and Diego de San Pedro; articles that have appeared in the journals Cervantes, Comedia Performance, Bulletin of Comediantes, Estudios Segovianos, eHumanista, and Romance Quarterly; several book chapters; and over twenty book reviews. He has been the editor of Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs since 2008.
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ISBN 13 9781557538994
ISBN 10 1557538999
Title Don Quixote and Catholicism
Author Michael Mcgrath
Series Purdue Studies In Romance Literatures
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Purdue University Press
Year published 2020-08-30
Number of pages 202
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.