{"product_id":"9781577661481","title":"Don Quixote: The Quest for Modern Fiction","description":"Since its publication in the early seventeenth century, \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e has become a classic of world literature, and its hero a symbol of romantic aspiration and absurdity. Even today, Cervantes’s mad knight continues to reach out and hook readers’ psyches. \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a verisimilar literary character, whose rich and conflicted inner life and encounters with the world around him became the prototype for the modern novel from \u003ci\u003eTom Jones\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e. Johnson situates \u003ci\u003eQuixote\u003c\/i\u003e within its relevant historical and cultural context, including the uniquely Spanish form of the general European dialectic of Old versus New. The mad hero’s encounters with the world expose the shaky foundations of that conflictive society. \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e was a revolutionary ideological statement in its own time, and has proved to be a revolutionary literary statement for all time. Johnson shows how Cervantes challenges the official poetics of the late sixteenth century, and simultaneously anticipates virtually every aspect of the trendiest theorizing of the late twentieth century.","brand":"Waveland Press, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054116684016,"sku":"9781577661481","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781577661481","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}