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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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How do an author's techniques establish the recurring paradox raised by the tragic genre? I have called upon the valuable arguments offered by Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, and Nietzsche to help the student and lay reader understand the operation of basic literary languages. But fiction is not philosophy. My study focuses on the narrative sequence, im-ages, and rhetorical devices that embody a dilemma envisioned by prominent tragedians in both the ancient and modern worlds.
Tragedy --- Paradox in literature. --- Paradoxes in literature --- History and criticism.
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This book explores the major paradoxes of Russian literature as a manifestation of both tragic and ironic contradictions of human nature and national character. Russian literature, from Pushkin and Gogol to Chekhov, Nabokov and to postmodernist writers, is studied as a holistic text that plays on the reversal of such opposites as being and nothingness, reality and simulation, and rationality and absurdity. The glorification of Mother Russia exposes her character as a witch; a little man is transformed into a Christ figure; consistent rationality betrays its inherent madness, and extreme verbosity produces the effect of silence. The greatest Russian writers were masters of spiritual self-denial and artistic self-destruction, which explains many paradoxes and unpredictable twists of Russian history up to our time.
Paradox in literature. --- Russian literature --- Russian literature. --- History and criticism. --- Paradoxes in literature
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Paradox in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- Paradoxes in literature
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With a career spanning more than fifty years as a writer, scholar, and public intellectual, Édouard Glissant produced an astonishingly wide range of work, including poems, novels, essays, pamphlets, and theater. In Think Like an Archipelago, Michael Wiedorn offers a fresh interpretation of Glissant's work as a cohesive and explicitly philosophical project, paying particular attention to the last two decades of his career, which have received much less attention in the English-speaking world despite their remarkable productivity. Focusing his study on the idea of paradox, Wiedorn argues that it is fundamental to Caribbean culture and thought, and at the heart of Glissant's philosophy.The question of difference has long played a central role in the literary and philosophical traditions of the West, however to think differently, Glissant suggests focusing elsewhere: on the post-plantation societies of the Caribbean, and the Americas more broadly. For Glissant, paradoxical lessons drawn from the natural and cultural realities of the Caribbean can point to new ways of thinking and being in the world: in other words, to the creation of what Glissant calls a "new category of literature," and in turn to the attainment of his utopian political vision. Thinking through such paradoxes, Wiedorn demonstrates, can offer new perspectives on the old questions of totality, alterity, teleology, and the potential of philosophy itself.
Paradox in literature. --- Contradiction in literature. --- Paradoxes in literature --- Glissant, Édouard,
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Art, Roman. --- Latin literature --- Marvelous, The, in art. --- Marvelous, The, in literature. --- Paradox in art. --- Paradox in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Art, Roman --- Marvelous, The, in art --- Marvelous, The, in literature --- Paradox in art --- Paradox in literature --- Paradoxes in literature --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Roman art --- Classical antiquities --- History and criticism --- Rome --- Civilization. --- History
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Paradox in literature --- Paradoxes in literature --- Lazarillo de Tormes. --- Lazarillo --- Lázaro de Tormes --- Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes --- Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades --- Vida de Lorenzillo de Tormes --- Vida del Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades --- Segunda parte de Lazarillo de Tormes
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Didactic fiction, American --- Ethics in literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Naturalism in literature --- Paradox in literature --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Science fiction, American --- Morale dans la littérature --- Narration --- Naturalisme dans la littérature --- Paradoxe dans la littérature --- Postmodernisme (Littérature) --- Science-fiction américaine --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Vonnegut, Kurt --- Criticism and interpretation --- Critique et interprétation --- -Ethics in literature --- -Science fiction, American --- -Experimental fiction, American --- -American experimental fiction --- American fiction --- American science fiction --- Paradoxes in literature --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- American didactic fiction --- -Criticism and interpretation --- Ethics in literature. --- Experimental fiction, American --- Naturalism in literature. --- Paradox in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- -History and criticism --- -Paradoxes in literature --- American experimental fiction --- -Fengnigete --- Воннегут, Курт --- וונגוט, קורט --- וונגוט, קורט. רוטבליט, יעקב --- カートヴォネガット --- Morale dans la littérature --- Naturalisme dans la littérature --- Paradoxe dans la littérature --- Postmodernisme (Littérature) --- Science-fiction américaine --- Critique et interprétation --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Fengnigete
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German literature --- Drama --- Dürrenmatt, Friedrich --- Grotesque in literature --- Paradox in literature --- 830 "19" DURRENMATT, FRIEDRICH --- Duitse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--DURRENMATT, FRIEDRICH --- Durrenmatt, Friedrich --- -Di︠u︡rrenmatt, Fridrikh --- Duerrenmatt, Friedrich --- Dwirenmatʻŭ, Pʻŭridŭrihi --- Tiwrrěmatʻtʻ, Fritrish --- דירנמט, פרדריך --- דירנמט, פרידריך --- Criticism and interpretation --- -Criticism and interpretation --- 830 "19" DURRENMATT, FRIEDRICH Duitse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--DURRENMATT, FRIEDRICH --- Paradoxes in literature --- Dürrenmatt, Friedrich --- Di︠u︡rrenmatt, Fridrikh --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Дюрренматт, Фридрих
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Barth, John --- Criticism and interpretation --- Humorous stories, American --- Sublime, The, in literature. --- Comic, The, in literature. --- Paradox in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Barth, John, --- Comic, The, in literature --- -Paradox in literature --- Sublime, The, in literature --- Paradoxes in literature --- American humorous stories --- American fiction --- American wit and humor --- History and criticism --- Paradox in literature --- Bart, Dz︠h︡on, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Barth, John (1930-....) --- Critique et interprétation
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