What's Funny about Don Quixote
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16774618 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas R Hart (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 227-232 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-2737 • E-ISSN: 1745-820X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/174582009x433185 |
| OpenAlex | W2073930470 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
Peter Russell has shown that Cervantes's contemporaries considered Don Quixote a funny book, while many readers now consider it a serious and even tragic work. Three modern theorists of comedy — Northrop Frye, Henri Bergson, and Elder Olson — describe qualities most readers expect to find in a comic work. The absence of these qualities, or the presence of other opposing qualities, in Don Quixote helps to account for the reluctance of many readers today to agree that it is indeed a funny book.Peter Russell has shown that Cervantes's contemporaries considered Don Quixote a funny book, while many readers now consider it a serious and even tragic work. Three modern theorists of comedy — Northrop Frye, Henri Bergson, and Elder Olson — describe qualities most readers expect to find in a comic work. The absence of these qualities, or the presence of other opposing qualities, in Don Quixote helps to account for the reluctance of many readers today to agree that it is indeed a funny book.Peter Russell ha mostrado que los contemporáneos de Cervantes pensaban que Don Quijote era una obra cómica, mientras que hoy muchos lectores creen que es una obra seria y hasta trágica. Tres teóricos modernos de lo cómico — Northrop Frye, Henri Bergson, y Elder Olson — describen algunos elementos que el lector de hoy espera encontrar en toda obra cómica. La ausencia de estos elementos en el Quijote, o la presencia de otros elementos opuestos, nos ayuda a entender por qué muchos lectores se resisten a creer que la novela es un libro divertido.Keywords: CERVANTESDON QUIXOTECOMEDY
Art · Art history · Character (mathematics · Comedy · Comics · Humanities · Literature · Early Modern Spanish Literature · Historical and Literary Analyses · Literary and Cultural Studies · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |