Don Quixote's Impossible Quest for the Absolute in Literature

Don Quixote's Impossible Quest for the Absolute in Literature

Fiction, Reflection, and Negative Theology

Franke, William

Taylor & Francis Ltd

07/2024

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9781032688961

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List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Prologue Concerning Apophatic Theology in Literary Representation and Reflection

Chapter 1 The Revelation of Laughter: Cervantes's Comic Christian Muse

The Power of Laughter-The Wisdom of Folly

A Negative Theological Reading of Don Quixote

Fool for Christ as Universal Sage

Don Quixote's Contemporaneity and Universality

The Holy Fool as Christian Saint and Crusader

Unamuno and Ortega: Dialectic of the Religious and the Secular

Chapter 2 Self-reflective Dynamics of Revelation in Literature

A. Self-subversive Mirroring Between and Among the Protagonists

The Knight of Mirrors and of the White Moon as Self-reflection of Don Quixote

Don Quixote's Ideal Reflected in Sancho-and Inversely

Self-reflexivity as Self-fulfilling Ideal

Becoming a Book and Reading One's Life

B. Self-reflection and Undermining the Authority of the Author

Self-reflective Questioning of Authorship

Cervantes's Self-representations in the Prologues

Authorship and Originality

Self-reflexivity in the Narrative Structure of Fiction

Fictionalization of Author by Self-reflection-Kafka and Borges

The Dialectic of Self-reflection and Negative Theology

Chapter 3 Negative Theology of the Novel

The Novel as Breaking Down the Separation of Styles-Auerbach

Recognition Scenes: Epiphanies and Theophanies

The Novel as Subjective Reflective Medium and Genre Reflecting Concrete Reality

The Novel as Subjectively Lived Experience

The Novel as a New and Comprehensive Genre

Dialectics of Wholeness

The In-breaking of External Reality Into Fiction

Mutual Contamination of History and Fiction and Their Exposure to Externality

Maese Pedro's Puppet Show and Unamuno's Move Through Fiction to Reality

Ortega on Literary Genre: From Epic Myth to Novelistic Formal Reality

Novelistic Creation of Formal Reality-Ortega and Maese Pedro's Puppet Theatre

Fiction and Realization of the Ideal

Chapter 4 Visionary Experience in the Cave of Montesinos as Revelation via Parody

The Vision of Montesinos, or the Part of Fiction in the Construction of Prophetic Revelation

The Question of Truth Raised by the Vision in the Cave

Artifice and the Limits of the Control of the Author

The Reality that Our Fictions Become

The Ontological Argument for Dulcinea's Existence

Real Costs of One's Fictive Inventions

Repetitions of Visionary Revelation following Montesinos

Sancho's Perversion of Visionary Experience-Clavileno

Visionary Revelation After the Cave of Montesinos-Its Translation Into the Everyday

Chapter 5 Dialectic of Religious Truth and Its Secular Simulation

Religious and Anti-religious Interpretations of the Quixote: Religion Versus Secularity

Velazquez's Las Meninas: Self-reflexivity and the Other

Camacho's Wedding as Theatrical Artifice and Its Sacramental Transfiguration

Baroque Aesthetics of Contrast, the Grotesque, and Theatricalization of the World

Feminine Beauty as Ideal and as Simulation

Transvestism, Love of Artifice, and the Transhuman

Formal Dimension of Reality-Names as Revelation-Antonomasia

Archetypal Image and Primal Naming-Spitzer's Linguistic Perspectivism

The Epistolary Novel and the Scriptural Ideal

Dialectic of Self-reflective Desengano and Disinterested Dedication

Chapter 6 A Political Novel: Representation of an Idealized World Versus Contemporary Reality

The Baroque Age: Aesthetics of the Ideal, Realism, and the Unrepresentable

Barataria as Anti-utopia of a Perfectly Artificial State

Knowing One's Limits and Becoming Oneself: Sancho in "Hell"

The Contemporary Expulsion Drama and the Apotheosis of Fiction

The Realistic Political Novel as an Overture to Modernity

Barcelona and the New Materialism

Chapter 7 The Passion of Sancho Panza and the Death of Don Quixote

The Wise Fool-Like Master Like Servant: Sancho's Governance

Sancho's Assuming the Lead Position in the Duo

Visionary Revisitations-Sancho in the Role of the Christ Figure

Altisidora's Invention of a Visionary Revelation

Don Quixote's Death and Bequest-The Heroism of the Common Person?

The Christian Death of Alonso Quijano-and Sancho's Passion to Live

Chapter 8 The Metaphysics of Fiction

The Force of Fiction

Real Tragedy in Fiction-Carl Schmitt

Ambiguity of Fictive Truth in Epic Tradition and Its Modern Parody

What Makes a Book of Poetic Literature Great-or Revelatory?

The Integration of Fiction into Reality and Vice Versa-Vargas Llosa

Self-reflection at the Juncture of Fiction and Ultimate Reality

The Apophatic in Literature-An Aesthetic Dimension of the Real

Chapter 9 Philosophies of Quixotism

Unamuno's Quixotesque Turning of Philosophy into Religion

Ortega's Cervantesque Philosophy of Desengano as a Theory of Genres

Unamuno on Quixotism as the True Philosophy and Religion of the Spanish People

Unamuno's Staging of the Battle Between Reason and Faith-Reason's Self-undermining

The Novel as Philosophy, Don Quixote as Tragicomedy

Towards Ortega's Philosophy of Relations as a Type of Secular Revelation

Maria Zambrano's Mediation of Two Philosophical Masters

A Parting Reflection

Index
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Cervantes;Religion;Christianity;Philology;Philosophy;Negative Theology;Sancho Panza;Self-Reflexivity;narrative;Dulcinea;Clavileno;the novel;Montesinos;Parody