Critical Images: The Canonization of Don Quixote Through Illustrated Editions of the Eighteenth CenturyMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1999 - 248 páginas How did the tall, lanky Don Quixote and the short, stout Sancho Panza become staple figures of Western iconography, so well known that their silhouettes are easily recognizable in Picasso's famous work? How did the novel Don Quixote, a parody of the romances of knight errantry, become a paean to the long-suffering, impotent nobility of its deluded protagonist? According to Rachel Schmidt, the answers to both questions are to be found in the way in which the novel's characters and episodes were depicted in early illustrated editions. In Critical Images Schmidt argues that these visual images presented critical interpretations that both formed and represented the novel's historical reception. Schmidt analyses both Spanish and English illustrations, including those by William Hogarth, John Vanderbank, Francis Hayman, José del Castillo, and Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, and explores several of the iconographic traditions present in the illustrations: the burlesque, which focuses on the work's slapstick humour; the satirical, which emphasizes Cervantes's supposed didactic, Enlightenment message; and the sentimental, which highlights Don Quixote's purity of heart and purpose. Schmidt demonstrates that the illustrations offset the neoclassical criticism contained in the same volumes and reveals an intriguing variety of historical readings, highlighting the debates, controversies, and conflicts of interests surrounding interpretations of Don Quixote. Dealing with such topical issues as canon formation, visual semiotics, and the impact of visual media on public opinion, Critical Images will be of great value not only to literary scholars and literary historians but also to art historians and those engaged in cultural and media studies. |
Índice
Book Illustration as Critical Interpretation of the Text | 3 |
SeventeenthCentury Readings and Depictions | 27 |
The First Neoclassical | 47 |
EighteenthCentury English | 89 |
Illustration and Enlightenment | 126 |
Goya and the Romantic Reading of Don Quixote | 170 |
Términos y frases comunes
1738 Lord Carteret 1780 Real Academia adventures aesthetic Alonso Quijano Antoine Coypel Antonio Antonio Carnicero appears artist Avellaneda Biblioteca Nacional Bouttats burlesque canonization Carnicero carnivalesque century Cervantes Saavedra characters chivalric romances classical comic critical culture deluded depiction didactic Don Quixote Doña Rodríguez Dulcinea eighteenth eighteenth-century elevated elite enchantment engraved Enlightenment episode errant española estampas eyes fantastic Figure folly fool Francis Hayman genre Goya Goya's grotesque hero heroic Hogarth humour Ibid iconography illustrations ilustrados ingenioso interpretation John Vanderbank José del Castillo knight errantry la Mancha laughter literary London Lord Carteret edition madness Madrid Mancha Maritornes Mayans y Siscar Miguel de Cervantes Mommarte neoclassical novel Oldfield painting parody Paulson popular portrait prologue protagonist Quixote and Sancho Quixote's reader Real Academia edition reception representation represents reveals Ríos Romantic reading Sancho Panza satirical scene sentimental siglo XVIII Smollett social Spain tion tradition University vision William Hogarth
Referencias a este libro
Book and Text in France, 1400-1600: Poetry on the Page Adrian Armstrong,Malcolm Quainton Vista previa restringida - 2007 |
Cervantes in the English-speaking World: New Essays Darío Fernández-Morera,Michael Hanke Vista de fragmentos - 2005 |