Don Quixote Among the Saracens: A Clash of Civi. De-Armas Paperback<|

Don Quixote Among the SaracensA Clash of Civilizations and Literary Genres\nAuthor(s): Frederick A. de Armas\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781442616011, 978-1442616011\nSynopsis\nThe fictional Don Quixote was constantly defeated in his knightly adventures. In writing Quixote's story, however, Miguel Cervantes succeeded in a different kind of quest the creation of a modern novel that conquers and assimilates countless literary genres. Don Quixote among the Saracens considers how Cervantes's work reflects the clash of civilizations and anxieties towards cultural pluralism that permeated Golden Age Spain.\n\n Frederick A. de Armas unravels an essential mystery of one of world literature's best known figures: why Quixote sets out to revive knight errantry, and why he comes to feel at home only among the Moorish Saracens, a people whom Quixote feared at the beginning of the novel. De Armas also reveals .