Adventures in Paradox by Charles D Presberg

Adventures in Paradox by Charles D Presberg

Don Quixote confronts us with a series of enigmas that, over the centuries, have divided even its most expert readers. In a study that aims to revise the way we read and debate Don Quixote, Charles Presberg discusses the topic of paradox as a governing rhetorical strategy in the text.

“A beautiful book—one of extraordinary originality—on the pervasive presence of paradox in Cervantes’s masterpieceFew studies in modern times have so convincingly won their point within the covers of a single volume and added a genuinely new province of understanding to a much-studied and major item of the canon.”

—Henry W. Sullivan,Tulane University

“This study examines the trope of paradox from classical antiquity to the present, with a special focus on its application to early modern Spanish texts, most notably to Don Quixote. This is a significant undertaking, and Presberg manipulates the difficult task of synthesizing rhetoric, philosophy, and literature with competence and elegance. In sum, this is a beautifully crafted work of criticism, original in its own right.”

—E. H. Friedman CHOICE

“This is a fine book written in the tradition of the humanists and scholars it venerates. . . . This is no microhistory, and it is laudable that Presberg is willing to take on the challenge of a topic this large. He acquits himself with finesse, and it is the opinion of this reviewer at least that more books like this one ought to be attempted by scholars and subsequently published by major university presses. . . . This is a book to which professors will direct their students for many, many years to come. It is also a study that reveals how much Hispanism has to say to the larger scholarly community.”

—Hilaire Kallendorf South Central Review

“Presberg’s analysis of this turn of mind and discourse is both ludic and serious as well befits its subject while its range and subtlety belong to the very best of our scholarly tradition.”

—Salvador J. Fajardo South Atlantic Review

“Adventures in Paradox is an essential study for readers interested in the puzzles of logic and storytelling that Cervantes presents to us.”

—Stephen Rupp Modern Language Review

Charles D. Presberg is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His articles have appeared in MLN, Cervantes, Bulletin of the Comediantes, Hispania, Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, and Laberinto.

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ISBN 13	9780271023649
ISBN 10	0271023643
Title	Adventures in Paradox
Author	Charles D Presberg
Series	Studies In Romance Literatures
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pennsylvania State University Press
Year published	2003-10-15
Number of pages	264
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