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The Endless Text: Don Quixote and the Hermeneutics of Romance(SUNY series, The Margins of Literature)

The Endless Text: Don Quixote and the Hermeneutics of Romance(SUNY series, The Margins of Literature)

          
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CHOICE 1998 Outstanding Academic Books The Endless Text is the first study to trace the history of chivalric fiction in Western Europe, from the earliest Celtic tales to the conflict between romance and realism in Don Quixote. A set of specific rhetorical devices are traced through the development of medieval romance in the works of Chretien de Troyes, and a surprising number of these devices survive in Don Quixote: the troubled relationship between narrator and hero, the consistent image of the hero in contrast to the fluctuating portrayals of women, and the ways in which problems of retelling the story become part of the story itself. An integral part of this rhetorical migration was the unstable referential value of the lexicon: for example, fish platters became holy chalices, and gods became heroes while goddesses and Otherworld women became evil enchantresses. It was this linguistic revolution that created the "hermeneutics of romance" and forced readers to interpret the unstable signs embedded in the text. Fear of how this played out in the reader's consciousness was the basis for the condemnation of romance by church and state. Ultimately, this critical approach provides a new formula for rereading Don Quixote, one that reinterprets the questions of what makes or unmakes a hero, what is free will in relation to destiny, and how the language of women differs from that of men.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments A Prolegomenon for Romance: In The Beginning There Was Trouble with the Word 1. The Endless Text "I Read; Therefore I Am": The Romance Discourse of Celtic Storytellers, Chrétien de Troyes, and Cervantes Arthurian and "Other" Stories The Trouble with Texts and the Blindness of Institutional Readings The Hermeneutics of Unbelief Why Real Men Don't Read Romance What Happened to Romance: Transformation as Literary Form 2. The Celtic Reserve Ireland, Wales and France Logocentrism versus Romance Celtic Narrative as Knowledge The Hidden Text in Romance: Ontological and Epistemological Arrangements for Heroes, Heroines, and Narratives Peredur/Perceval and the Grail Configuration: One Hero Two Ways Reading and Romance Gods and Closure: Ritual as Logos in Peredur Peredur: The Bifurcated Epistemological Powers of the Hero Perceval, The Inner Text Other Suppressions of the Grail Castle Chrétien's Perceval: The Knight of the Marche /Border Lord Chrétien and the Art of the Impossible Prologue to the Challenge 3. Don Quixote: The Reluctant Romance The Story of the Name and the Name of the Story: Quijote>Quijada/Quesada/Quejana/Quijana/Quijano, etc., or Paradigms of Referentiality The God of Thieves and Tricky Texts: The Inn of the Pig The Hero's Arrival and Reception into the World of Romance The Language of Chiasmus The Hidden Story of a Hero The Song of the Singer and His Song The Windmill of Hell The Danger at the Mill The Story of the Three Mills as the Story of the Text Mills, Herms, Marks, Borders Disguise and Explain but Take No Prisoners The Romance of Hermeneutics Hermeneutics as Eros The Inn of the Two Genres Ginés versus Cardenio The Stolen Language of the Picaresque versus the Forgotten Language of Women The Revenge of Romance Entrelacement versus Logocentrism The Language of Dorotea and the Discourse of Disjunction Communicative Incompetence Otherworld Languages Sailing to Byzantium The Micomicona Artifice Errancy as Artifice Rescued by Romance: A Feminist Hermeneutic The Importance of Losing Your Head Spelling and Un-spelling Languages The Performative Power of Language: The Celtic Geiss and Other Traumaturgical Acts The Riddle of the Name Reading beyond the Apocalypse: The Riddle of Dorotea Coda: The Dark Night of the Word—A Sign of Trouble Works Cited Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780791435250
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 316
  • Series Title: SUNY series, The Margins of Literature
  • Sub Title: Don Quixote and the Hermeneutics of Romance
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0791435253
  • Publisher Date: 02 Oct 1997
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 608 gr


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