scholarly journals Blossoms Perfuming the Garden: From Peony Pavilion to Don Quixote

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Zhu Xuchen
Keyword(s):  
Don Quixote ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Tang Xianzu ◽  
Peony Pavilion ◽  
Similar Experience

<p>Based on the framework of language</p><p>construction and psychoanalysis, this study</p><p>analyzes love and worldly ideal, which are</p><p>presented by Tang Xianzu and Cervantes in</p><em></em><p><em>Peony Pavilion </em>and <em>Don Quixote</em>. Due to the</p><p>similar experience and life sentiment, the two</p><p>authors showed amazing consistency on creative</p><p>thinking, writing skill, creative psychology and</p><p>even marriage notion, which verified the</p><p>communicative idiomatum between eastern</p><p>and western literature in the same era</p>

scholarly journals Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote and John Barth’s The Sot-Weed Factor: A Deconstructive Reading

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 333-341
Author(s):  
Javier Martín-Párraga
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
General Point ◽  
John Barth ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
History Of

Abstract Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote is one of the earliest and most influential novels in the history of Western literature. John Barth’s The Sot-Weed Factor, published almost three centuries later, can be considered as one of the most seminal postmodern novels ever written in the English language. The goal of this paper is to examine Cervantes’s influence on John Barth in particular and in American postmodernism from a more general point of view. For the Spanish genius’ footsteps on American postmodernism, a deconstructive reading will be employed. Consequently, concepts such as deconstruction of binary opposites, the role of the subaltern or how the distinction between history and story are paramount to both Cervantes and Barth will be used.

A Concept of Human Destiny in Western Literature

PMLA ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Egon Holthusen
Keyword(s):  
European Community ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Don Juan ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
The People ◽  
The Town ◽  
Human Destiny

My contribution to this year's conference of the Modern Language Association is an inquiry which can hardly be reduced to concrete terms: Meaning and Destiny in Western Literature. And yet our attention is to be engaged by five concrete literary figures—symbolic not only of the spirit of the people in whose languages they originated, but of the spirit and soul of the European community as a whole. They have been familiar to you from your youth—as familiar as the skyline of your native mountains, or your cities, or as any landmark in the town of your childhood: Oedipus, Hamlet, Don Quixote, Don Juan, and Faust.

scholarly journals La literatura de los otros es mi propia literatura

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Branka Kalenić Ramšak
Keyword(s):  
Don Quixote ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Modern Novel ◽  
The Future ◽  
Literary Techniques

This essay attempts to reveal the sophisticated relations of texts, continuations, imitations and quotations between the first modern novel of western literature, Don Quixote de Cervantes, and its first continuation, Don Quixote de Avellaneda. It seems that there has been an autobiographical text by Gerónimo de Passamonte (hypothetically its author is Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda) before the first part of Don Quixote that served as a palimpsest to Cervantes. Avellaneda, whose identity is unknown to the reading public and known to Cervantes, answered him literarily with his continuation in 1614; in turn, Cervantes wrote the second part of his Don Quixote in 1615 and responded with literature to all his imitators and adversaries. In this way, the network of hypertextuality and intertextuality was established, which, like other literary techniques proposed by Cervantes, served as a model for many authors in the future.

scholarly journals From Story to Script: towards a Morphology of The Peony Pavilion––a Dream/ Ghost Drama from Ming China

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 189-208
Author(s):  
Xiaohuan Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Function Versus ◽  
Dramatic Structure ◽  
Functional Scheme ◽  
Dramatic Text ◽  
Tang Xianzu ◽  
Peony Pavilion ◽  
Vladimir Propp ◽  
Sequence Of Functions

University of Otago, Donghua University This article is an attempt to analyze the dramatic structure of the Mudan ting 牡丹 亭 (Peony Pavilion) as a piece of fantasy which Tang Xianzu 湯顯祖 (1550–1616) created through the utilisation of structural devices and techniques of magic tales. The particular model adopted for the textual analysis is that formulated by Vladimir Propp in Morphology of Russian Folktale.This paper starts with a comparison of Russian magic tales Propp investigated for his morphological study and Chinese zhiguai 志怪 tales which provide the prototype for the Mudan ting with a view of justifying the application of the Proppian model. The second part of this paper is devoted to a critical review of the Proppian model and method in terms of function versus non-function, tale versus move, and character versus tale / theatrical role. Further information is also given in this part as a response to challenges and criticisms this article may incur as regards the applicability of the Proppian model in inter-cultural and inter-generic studies.Part Three is a morphological analysis of the dramatic text with a focus on the main storyline revolving around the hero and heroine. In the course of textual analysis, the particular form and sequence of functions is identified, the functional scheme of each move presented, and the distribution of dramatis personae in accordance with the sphere(s) of action of characters delineated. Finally this paper concludes with a presentation of the overall dramatic structure and strategy of this play.

The Peony Pavilion (Mudan Ting) by Tang Xianzu

1982 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 692 ◽  
Author(s):  
David T. Roy ◽  
Tang Xianzu ◽  
Cyril Birch
Keyword(s):  
Tang Xianzu ◽  
Peony Pavilion

Humor in der Therapie. Lachend auf Distanz gehen, Ängste lachend besiegen

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-157
Author(s):  
Gudrun Hofmann
Keyword(s):  
Don Quixote ◽  
Miguel De Cervantes ◽  
Don Quijote ◽  
Richard Strauss ◽  
Sancho Panza

Zusammenfassung. Don Quijote und Sancho Panza, von Miguel de Cervantes Saavedras 1605/1612 geschaffene Romanhelden, erfreuen sich auch im Jahre 2003 eines großen Bekanntheitsgrades und sind als komisches Paar berühmt geworden. Beide verstricken sich in Abenteuer, die einzig ihrer Fantasie erwachsen. Im folgenden steht das Komische - aus nicht der Norm entsprechendem Verhalten oder aus wahnhaften Imaginationen erwachsend - in der literarischen Vorgabe wie auch in dem sinfonischen Tongedicht “Don Quixote“ von Richard Strauss im Mittelpunkt. Daran schließen sich Überlegungen zu einer tänzerischen Umsetzung im Rahmen eines therapeutischen Settings an. Es wird analysiert, wie sich Menschen mit unterschiedlichen Persönlichkeitszügen (resp. -störungen) darin wiederfinden können und wie die Charaktere von Don Quijote und Sancho Panza im Sinne einer eigenen Interpretation weiterentwickelt werden können. Aspekte der von Helmut Plessner vertretenen anthropologischen Betrachtungsweise des Lachens beleuchten die nur dem Menschen eigene Fähigkeit komisch zu sein und Komisches wahrzunehmen.

Szasz on Drugs: Don Quixote in the Pharmacy.

1976 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 679-680
Author(s):  
RONALD K. SIEGEL
Keyword(s):  
Don Quixote
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