Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of LaughterJHU Press, 1998 - 242 Seiten A significant reassessment of current assumptions about eighteenth-century literature and art. Seldom has a single book, much less a translation, so deeply affected English literature as the translation of Cervantes' Don Quixote in 1612. The comic novel inspired drawings, plays, sermons, and other translations, making the name of the Knight of la Mancha as familiar as any folk character in English lore. In this comprehensive study of the reception and conversion of Don Quixote in England, Ronald Paulson highlights the qualities of the novel that most attracted English imitators. The English Don Quixote was not the same knight who meandered through Spain, or found a place in other translations throughout Europe. The English Don Quixote found employment in all sorts of specifically English ways, not excluding the political uses to which a Spanish fool could be turned. According to Paulson, a major impact of the novel and its hero was their stimulation of discussion about comedy itself, what he calls the "aesthetics of laughter." When Don Quixote reached England he did so at the time of the rise of empiricism, and adherents of both sides of the empiricist debate found arguments and evidence in the behavior and image of the noble knight. Four powerful disputes battered around his grey head: the proximity of madness and imagination; the definition of the beautiful; the cruelty of ridicule and its laughter; and the role of reason in the face of madness. Paulson's engaging account leads to a significant reassessment of current assumptions about eighteenth-century literature and art. |
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The Aesthetics of Laughter Ronald Paulson. Don Quixote in England THE AESTHETICS OF LAUGHTER Seldom has a single book , much less a transla-. RONALD PAULSON Front Cover.
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The Aesthetics of Laughter Ronald Paulson. Don Quixote in England THE AESTHETICS OF LAUGHTER Ronald Paulson The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore and London FRONTISPIECE : William Hogarth , Don Quixote Releases the Galley.
The Aesthetics of Laughter Ronald Paulson. FRONTISPIECE : William Hogarth , Don Quixote Releases the Galley Slaves ... laughter / Ronald Paulson . P. cm . Includes bibliographical references ( p . ) and index . ISBN 0-8018-5695-7 ( alk ...
The Aesthetics of Laughter Ronald Paulson. CONTENTS PREFACE ix I. Imagination and Satire : Quixote Mistakes an Inn for a Castle Imagination Demonized : Swift Imagination Aestheticized : Addison Satire : Sancho Laughs at Quixote 15 12 ...
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Quixote Mistakes an Inn for a Castle | 1 |
Cervantes smiled Spains chivalry | 32 |
Don Quixotes madness in one point | 66 |
The Taste of Wine the Sight of Dulcinea | 83 |
The Parliament of Death and the Puppet Show | 108 |
Marcela Discourses on Beauty | 161 |
NOTES | 195 |
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