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Literary Narratives and the Cultural Imagination - King Arthur and Don Quixote as National Heroes (Hardcover)
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Literary Narratives and the Cultural Imagination - King Arthur and Don Quixote as National Heroes (Hardcover)
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In Literary Narratives and the Cultural Imagination: King Arthur
and Don Quixote as National Heroes the author examines traditional
Arthurian and Cervantine literary narratives to discuss how the two
literary figures became paladins of their respective nations.
Whereas the former bestows upon the homeland a positive image of
Britain, based on military might, a glorious past and a promise of
return, the latter contributes to a negative image of Spain based
on a narrative of defeat and faded glory. In the analysis of the
political intentions behind the literature that gave wings to the
rise as paragons of these very famous literary characters, a
semblance of the national imaginaries of the countries of their
birth appears. Indeed, the tradition of Waterloo and the tradition
of La Mancha are polar opposites in their Weltanschauung, and they
only have in common that both heroes, Arthur and Quijote, are
depicted as paladins of justice, benefactors, and redeemers of
their land of birth. It is this idealized view of what is possibly
the figment of a writer's (or many different writers) pen that
astonishes the reader, for behind it lies an intention to market
(for internal and external consumption) both literary creations,
exceeding the boundaries of the creative fiction that invented them
to transform them into myths and political symbols of their
respective nations.
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