Document Type

Article

Publication Date

December 2017

Publication Title

Renaissance Quarterly

Volume

70

Issue Number

4

First Page

1630

Last Page

1631

DOI

10.1086/696492

ISSN

0034-4338

Disciplines

Latin American Literature | Latina/o Studies

Abstract

It is no surprise that a work of the stature of Don Quixote continues to engender debate among scholars more than four centuries after its publication. Neo-Stoicism and Skepticism in Part One of “Don Quijote” by Daniel Lorca enters the fray by addressing Cervantes’s intention in writing the novel and the strategy he used to achieve his goal. As Cervantes himself tells us in the prologue to Don Quixote, his aim in writing the novel is to do away with the popularity of chivalric romances. But did Cervantes intend to discredit an entire literary genre simply through ridicule? Or was there a more profound strategy at play? These are the questions that Lorca attempts to answer.

Comments

This article was published by the University of Chicago Press for the Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 70, issue 4, 2017, pp. 1630-1631. The article is also available online at https://doi.org/10.1086/696492
© 2017 by University of Chicago Press.

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