Enamoured Knight (Dalkey Archive Scholarly)

Enamoured Knight (Dalkey Archive Scholarly)

This book is filled with passion and love for the art of writing and is a celebration of reading. Through the prism of the great Russian Formalist Viktor Shklovsky, Douglas Glover provides a scrupulous reading of Cervantes's Don Quixote, opening this 400-year-old Spanish masterpiece to a new generation of readers, showing how Cervantes made his novel, and, finally, revealing how we as readers participate in his magic creation. Glover's brilliant accomplishment resides in his ability to seduce the reader with his own stunning prose and penetrating insight, while also creating the means for anyone to see into Cervantes's genius. a wonderful tour of critical perspectives on Don Quixote' -Quill & Quire "The Enamoured Knight wisely fuses two frequently doomed genres into a readable one, combining a thoroughly informed yet still readable run of literary criticism with a passionate and playful artist-on-art commentary." William Kennedy, the author of "Ironweed", has called Douglas Glover "a very astute literary mind and an excellent writer . . . a writer of substance," and Philip Marchand has called him "one of the most important Canadian writers of his generation." Even though he is always working outside the box, his books have gained acclaim from the most attentive critics. "A Guide to Animal Behaviour" was a finalist for the Governor General#&39;s Award; H.J. Kirchoff selected "The Life and Times of Captain N." as a "Globe and Mail" top-ten paperback of 2001; and "16 Categories of Desire" was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Award for Fiction. Douglas Glover is a Canadian itinerant. He grew up on the family tobacco farm in southwestern Ontario, studied philosophy at York University and the University of Edinburgh, then worked on a series of daily newspapers in New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan before earning his MFA at the Iowa Wri Used Book in Good Condition