Books about Quixotic from Amazon.com

In his national bestseller, A Gentle Madness, Nicholas Basbanes explored the sweet obsession people feel to possess books. Now, Basbanes continues his adventures among the "gently mad" on an irresistible journey to the great libraries of the past -- from Alexandria to Glastonbury -- and to contemporary collections at the Vatican, Wolfenbüttel, and erudite universities. Along the way, he drops in on eccentric book dealers and regales us with stories about unforgettable collectors, such as the gentleman who bought a rare book in 1939 "by selling bottles of his own blood."

Taking the book's grand title from the marble lions guarding the New York Public Library at 42nd Street, Basbanes both entertains and delights. And once again, as Scott Turow aptly noted, "Basbanes makes you love books, the collections he writes about, and the volume in your hand."

.
Price: $4.93 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Quixotic Fictions of the USA 1792-1815 explores the conflicted and conflicting interpretations of Don Quixote available to and deployed by disenchanted writers of America's new republic. It argues that the legacy of Don Quixote provided an ambiguous cultural icon and ironic narrative stance that enabled authors to critique with impunity the ideological fictions shoring up their fractured republic. Close readings of works such as Modern Chivalry, Female Quixotism, and The Algerine Captive reveal that the fiction from this period repeatedly engaged with Cervantes's narrative in order to test competing interpretations of republicanism, to interrogate the new republic's multivalent crises of authority, and to question both the possibility and the desirability of an isolationist USA and an autonomous "American" literature.
Sarah Wood's study is the first book-length publication to examine the role of Don Quixote in early American literature. Exploring the extent to which the literary culture of North America was shaped by a diverse range of influences, it addresses an issue of growing concern to scholars of American history and literature. Quixotic Fictions reaffirms the global reach of Cervantes's influence and explores the complex, contradictory ways in which Don Quixote helped shape American fiction at a formative moment in its development..
Price: $32.58 [Notify me when price goes down.]

"A value of the collection is its multiple trajectory, as commentary on the Cervantine corpus, on authorial and fictional psyches, and on the dialectical (hi)story of literature and psychoanalysis. The editors and their distinguished collaborators have produced a monumental work of scholarship."--Choice

In this venturesome collection, scholars representing a variety of approaches contribute fifteen essays that shed new light not only on the uses of psychoanalysis for reading Cervantes, but also on the relationship between Freud's reading of Cervantes in the summer of 1883 and the very foundation of psychoanalytic paradigms..
Price: $3.94 [Notify me when price goes down.]

As a young man, Miguel de Cervantes left his home in Spain and travelled extensively through Italy, experiencing all that the Italian Renaissance had to offer. In his later writings, Cervantes sought to recapture his experience through literature, and literary critics have often pointed to Italian texts as models for Cervantes' writing. The art of the period, however, has seldom been examined in this context.

Focusing on Don Quixote, Frederick A. de Armas unearths links between Cervantes' text and frescoes, paintings, and sculptures by Italian artists such as Cambiaso, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian. His study seeks to re-engage the critics of today by formulating the link between Cervantes and the Renaissance through an interdisciplinary dialogue that establishes a new set of models and predecessors. This dialogue is used to explore a variety of issues in Cervantes including the absence of a single guiding pictorial program, the doubling of archaeological reconstruction, and the use of ekphrasis as allusion, interpolation, and an integral component of the action. Quixotic Frescoes delves into the politics of imitation, self-censorship, religious ideology expressed through the pictorial, as well as the gendering of art as reflected in Cervantes' work. This detailed and exhaustive study is an invaluable contribution to both Hispanic and Renaissance studies.

.
Price: $56.78 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Reflections is a book of spiritual, metaphysical, and psychological observations from an author whose continued personal and professional experiences keep him grounded in two distinct, yet complementary worlds: science and spirituality. Rather than presenting his observations in declarative form, or as dogmatic answers to life's mysteries, John Cottone has instead inverted his reflections into a series of Socratic questions to help readers refine their own critical thinking skills. Though Reflections can be enjoyed as a book for leisurely reading and contemplation, it can also be a tool for examining the unconscious and nurturing one's spiritual development. The questions and observations presented in the book about spirituality, religion, science, and human behavior will hopefully enable readers to explore the mysteries of existence while on a journey that will ultimately take them to the destinations of their own conclusions. Whether readers find Reflections to be most useful as a meditation reading book, a catalyst for group discussion, or a personal mirror for periodic glimpses at the soul, the book is designed to challenge, and inspire, those who read it to look at the world around them with greater perspective..
Price: $11.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Step into a world of dream, of fantasy, of erotic tales spiked with poetic imagery Step into Quixotic Erotic, the new collection of literary erotica from Tamai Kobayashi

Like being awakened from a dream by a soft, sensuous caress, the stories in Quixotic Erotic stimulate the senses. From a birthday surprise to a torrid office dalliance, these tales roam the worlds of women loving women.

A woman's doctor prescribes a weekend with a sex surrogate, leading to exploration and discovery. A couple breaks a trail through the snow to a hidden hotsprings, and the passion it brings. Two women discover the pleasures that toys can stimulate.

But the women in these fictions are not simply sexual beings. They are fully-developed characters who can be confused and conflicted, angry and frustrated, happy and excited. They become real people in a real world, a place where sex is part of life and of living. A place where lovemaking is an expression of self.

The fantasies collected in Quixotic Erotic are literature in the purest sense.

Tamai Kobayashi was born in Japan and raised in Canada. She is the author of All Names Spoken (co-authored with Mona Oikawa) and Exile and the Heart, and was cowriter of the short film Short Hymn_Silent War 03 that screened as part of the Toronto International Film Festival.

.
Price: $10.13 [Notify me when price goes down.]

This digital document is an article from World Policy Journal, published by World Policy Institute on September 22, 2003. The length of the article is 5124 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Quixotic America.
Author: James Chace
Publication:World Policy Journal (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2003
Publisher: World Policy Institute
Volume: 20 Issue: 3 Page: 7(9)

Distributed by Thomson Gale.
Price: $5.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

This digital document is an article from Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, published by Cervantes Society of America on September 22, 2001. The length of the article is 7970 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Cervantes y la Quixotic Fiction: el hibridismo generico.(TT: Cervantes and Quixotic fiction: hybridism of genre.)
Author: John G. Ardila
Publication:Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2001
Publisher: Cervantes Society of America
Volume: 21 Issue: 2 Page: 5

Distributed by Thomson Gale.
Price: $5.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]