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Cervantes and Ariosto: Renewing Fiction
By (Author) Thomas R. Hart
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
863.3
Hardback
168
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
397g
Thomas Hart examines Erich Auerbach's contention that Don Quixote is not a tragedy but a comedy and suggests that Auerbach's view was shaped by his reading of Ariosto's chivalric romance Orlando furioso. At the same time Hart argues that neither Don Quixote nor Orlando furioso is so free from political intention as Auerbach believed they were. He d