This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world's greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. For the first time, Don Quixote is discussed from the point of re-accentuation, i.e. having in mind one of the key Bakhtinian concepts that will serve as a theoretical framework. A primary objective was therefore to articulate, relying on the concept of re-accentuation, that the history of the novel has benefited enormously from the re-accentuation of Don Quixote helping us to shape countless iconic novels from the eighteenth century, and to see how Cervantes's title character has been reinterpreted to suit the needs of a variety of cultures across time and space.
Acknowledgements Introduction by Howard Mancing and Slav N. Gratchev Part I: Re-accentuation: Theoretical Introduction Chapter I: On Re-accentuation, Adaptation, and Imitation of Don Quixote by Tatevik Gyulamiryan Part II: Imagery and Ideology Chapter 2: Don Quixote Re-depicted by Eduardo Urbina & Fernando Gonzalez Moreno Chapter 3: Don Quixote in the Rise of Modern Novel: The Satirical Interpretation by Emilio Martinez Mata Chapter 4: Don Quixote and the Chivalric Ideal in Classics Illustrated Comics (1941-1971) by Ricardo Castells Chapter 5: A Horse of a Different Color: Salvador Dali and the Re-imagining of Clavileno by S. Alleyn Smythe Chapter 5: Image not Found: Portraiture, Identity, and the future of Cervantismo by Stephen Hessel Part III: Literature Chapter 6: Borges and the Hermeneutics of the Novel by J. A. Garrido Ardila Chapter 7: World War and the Novel: Responding to Don Quixote in 1914 and 1934 by Rachel Schmidt Chapter 8: The Don Quixotes of Science Fiction by Howard Mancing Part IV: Film Chapter 9: The Art of re-accentuation: Don Quixote by Grigori Kozintsev by Slav N. Gratchev Chapter 10: Surviving the Hollywood Blacklist: Waldo Salt's adaptation of Don Quixote by William Childers Chapter 11: Crouching Squire, Hidden Madman: Ah Gan's Don Quixote and Postmodern China by Bruce Burningham Chapter 12: Amelie as Re-accentuation of Cervantes by Jonathan Wade Chapter 13: Extracting the Essence of Don Quixote for a Puppet film by Steven Ritz-Barr Part V: Theater and Television Chapter 14: The Spanish Knight Among the Soviet People: Dramatic Re-accentuations of Don Quixote as a Doomed Performer by Margarita Marinova & Scott Pollard Chapter 15: A Russian Lancelot and His Don Quixote by Victor Fet Part VI: Don Quixote in The New World Chapter 16: The Visionary's Quixote by Roy H. Williams Bibliography Index About the Editors
