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Don Quixote and Catholicism - Rereading Cervantine Spirituality (Paperback)
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Don Quixote and Catholicism - Rereading Cervantine Spirituality (Paperback)
Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
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Four hundred years since its publication, Miguel de Cervantes's Don
Quixote continues to inspire and to challenge its readers. The
universal and timeless appeal of the novel, however, has distanced
its hero from its author and its author from his own life and the
time in which he lived. The discussion of the novel's Catholic
identity, therefore, is based on a reading that returns Cervantes's
hero to Cervantes's text and Cervantes to the events that most
shaped his life. The authors and texts McGrath cites, as well as
his arguments and interpretations, are mediated by his religious
sensibility. Consequently, he proposes that his study represents
one way of interpreting Don Quixote and acts as a complement to
other approaches. It is McGrath's assertion that the religiosity
and spirituality of Cervantes's masterpiece illustrate that Don
Quixote is inseparable from the teachings of Catholic orthodoxy.
Furthermore, he argues that Cervantes's spirituality is as diverse
as early modern Catholicism. McGrath does not believe that the
novel is primarily a religious or even a serious text, and he
considers his arguments through the lens of Cervantine irony,
satire, and multiperspectivism. As a Roman Catholic who is a
Hispanist, McGrath proposes to reclaim Cervantes's Catholicity from
the interpretive tradition that ascribes a predominantly Erasmian
reading of the novel. When the totality of biographical and
sociohistorical events and influences that shaped Cervantes's
religiosity are considered, the result is a new appreciation of the
novel's moral didactic and spiritual orientation.
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