The Absence of the Absence of Women: Cervantes's <i>Don Quixote</i> and the Explosion of the Pastoral Tradition

Hernández-Pecoraro, Rosilie

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Cervantes: Don Quixote

Burningham

2019

A Companion to World Literature

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This chapter examines the foundational impact of Cervantes's Don Quixote on world literature. It begins with a brief outline of Cervantes's early life, traces his struggles to build a literary career following his five years of captivity in Algiers, and notes his phenomenal change in authorial fortune late in life with the publication of Don Quixote in 1605. The chapter then examines Cervantes's ground‐breaking novel as an early modern “bestseller” that has served for more than four centuries as a model for numerous literary, theatrical, and cinematic texts. Finally, it explores the ways in which Don Quixote 's interrelated modes of parody, idealism, and postmodernism (as both creative and interpretive frames) have tracked and informed not just the rise of the novel as a genre but also of modernity itself.

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Cervantes: Don Quixote

Burningham

2019

A Companion to World Literature

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Accounting in the organisation and life of a religious institution: The Monastery ofSanta Anain the eighteenth century

2022

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Set in the municipal archives of Braga, this article studies the accounting system and practices of the Monastery of Santa Ana, a female monastery located in a small town, Viana do Castelo, in the north of Portugal, during the eighteenth century. This work is a full-scale examination of the interlink between governance and accounting aspects of Benedictine organisations. It sheds light on the extent of management and administration that the female gender was able to exercise pertaining to a monastic order. The use of ‘displacement’ and ‘restraint’ concepts is pivotal to such exploration in the Monastery. The analysis of the accounting practices makes visible that large parts of its governance was embedded in social and internal accounting controls rather than the principal-agent type of relationship between the abbess, her auxiliaries and the monastery. Moreover, accounting practices help to appreciate the level of freedom of nuns that exceeded the actual freedom of a contemporary married woman.

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Cervantes and His Women Readers

Vollendorf

2005

Romance Quarterly

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Desocupado lector, sin juramento me podrás creer que quisiera que este libro, como hijo del entendimiento, fuera el más hermoso, el más gallardo y más discreto que pudiera imaginarse.(Prologue, Don Quijote de la Mancha, pt. 1) hen Cervantes wrote part one of Don Quijote as an epistle to the reader, he began a conversation with his reading public that would inform and define modern literature. His iconoclastic prologue crystallizes the triangular relationship among authors, texts, and readers. Whether as an idle or gentle reader, a listener, or even a teller of quixotic tales, the consumer of fiction is positioned as key to the novel's life and legacy. Ten years later, Cervantes solidified novelists' reliance on readers by inscribing readership into the structure, form, and plot of part two, in which nearly everyone-from authors to translators, galley slaves to aristocrats-is intimately involved in reading, writing, narrating, and acting out the story of Don Quijote and Sancho Panza. This lively dialogue between texts and consumers defined the novel as a self-conscious interplay between literature and life.Undoing the conventions of literature, Cervantes exposes the pedantry and artifice of the pastoral, chivalric, byzantine, and epic genres so popular in his day. He drew on all of those genres to produce a new entity that spoke directly to readers and their world. In that enterprise, he cast a wide net, depicting the lives of rich and poor, Christians and non-Christians, well-known literary characters and real people. By providing an overview of the tumultuous society in which he lived and wrote, Cervantes inscribed the conflicts of the modern nation-state as well as the challenges facing everyday people into what many 312 W

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The Absence of the Absence of Women: Cervantes's Don Quixote and the Explosion of the Pastoral Tradition

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Cervantes: Don Quixote

Cervantes: Don Quixote

Accounting in the organisation and life of a religious institution: The Monastery ofSanta Anain the eighteenth century

Cervantes and His Women Readers

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