Cervantes, Community, and Don Quixote

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Conclusion

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Novel Friendships and Community in Cervantes’s “Don Quixote”

2025-08-26

Novel Friendships and Community in Cervantes’s “Don Quixote” analyzes Don Quixote through the critical lens of friendship studies. Turning a critical spotlight on the friendship between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, this book examines the formation, growth, and dynamics of their friendship as the nucleus of the first modern novel in the West and the source of the work’s enduring power. Novel Friendships also examines the theme of amity in relation to the evolving concept of community as a throughline in Cervantes’s fiction—before, during, and after Don Quixote. This book shows the power of the arts, especially storytelling, to build friendships and foster community, and highlights how Cervantes deploys fiction to cultivate his readers’ sense of friendship and to create a community of readers. Novel Friendships suggests that today’s readers may find Cervantes’s views on amity and community highly relevant to the contemporary world.

Cervantes's World of Friendship and Community

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“I was the first” … before Don Quixote

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Don Quixote and Sancho, a Novel Friendship

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Don Quixote's Gallery of Friendships

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The Dynamics of Triangulation in Cervantes’s El amante liberal

Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos · 2024-05-17

This essay analyzes Miguel de Cervantes’s El amante liberal as a type of psychomachia that dramatizes the battle between two systems of interpersonal triangulation that change and mold the conduct and character of the protagonist Ricardo, and to a degree, of the other protagonist Leonisa. René Girard’s mimetic desire, which degrades and dehumanizes individuals, and St. Thomas Aquinas’s Christian friendship, which foments love and generosity, are inscribed in the story to explore the theme of identity and offer a Cervantine paradigm of reading and interpretation. This paradigm allows for ambiguity, hybridity, and changing interpretations.

NATALIA FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ. Ojos creadores, ojos creados. Mirada y visualidad en la lírica castellana de tradición petrarquista. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 2019. 276 pp.

Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos · 2023

• Humanities
• Humanities
• Art

Reseña de Ojos creadores, ojos creados. Mirada y visualidad en la lírica castellana de tradición petrarquista de Natalia Fernández Rodriguez.

Blanco, Mercedes, project dir. Góngora et les querelles littéraires de la Renaissance / Góngora y las polémicas literarias del Renacimiento (GQL/GPL; Góngora and the literary polemics of the Renaissance). Other.

Renaissance and Reformation · 2021-04-15

Blanco, Mercedes, project dir. Góngora et les querelles littéraires de la Renaissance / Góngora y las polémicas literarias del Renacimiento (GQL/GPL; Góngora and the literary polemics of the Renaissance). Other.. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Spaces of Power of the Spanish Nobility (1480–1715)), on Érudit.