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Cervantes’s Don Quixote confronts us with a series of enigmas that, over the centuries, have divided even its most expert readers: Does the text pursue a serious or comic purpose? Does it promote the truth of history and the untruth of fiction, or the truth of poetry and the fictiveness of truth itself? In a book that will revise the way we read and debate Don Quixote, Charles D. Presberg discusses the trope of paradox as a governing rhetorical strategy in this most canonical of Spanish literary texts. To situate Cervantes’s masterpiece within the centuries-long praxis of paradoxical discourse in the West, Presberg surveys its tradition in Classical Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the European Renaissance. He outlines the development of paradoxy in the Spanish Renaissance, centering on works by Fernando de Rojas, Pero Mexía, and Antonio de Guevara. In his detailed reading of portions of Don Quixote, Presberg shows how Cervantes’s work enlarges the tradition of paradoxical discourse by imitating as well as transforming fictional and nonfictional models. He concludes that Cervantes’s seriocomic ";system"; of paradoxy jointly parodies, celebrates, and urges us to ponder the agency of discourse in the continued refashioning of knowledge, history, culture, and personal identity.This engaging book will be welcomed by literary scholars, Hispanisists, historians, and students of the history of rhetoric and poetics.

Paradox in literature. --- Paradoxes in literature --- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de,

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Fathers and daughters in literature. --- Kings and rulers in literature. --- Tragedy. --- Drama --- Shakespeare, William, --- Lear, --- King Lear --- Leir, --- In literature. --- Lear, King (Legendary character), in literature.

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Crime in literature. --- Criminals in literature. --- Detective and mystery stories, English --- English fiction --- Law in literature. --- Literature and society --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Social classes in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- History --- Crime in literature --- Criminals in literature --- Law in literature --- Social classes in literature --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric)

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Mimesis in literature. --- Romanticism. --- Mimésis dans la littérature --- Romantisme --- Representation (Literature) --- Literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- Mimesis in literature --- Romanticism --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- Imitation in literature --- Realism in literature