{"product_id":"don-quixote-explained-the-story-of-an-unconventional-hero-9781481700962","title":"Don Quixote Explained: The Story of an Unconventional Hero","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Emre Gurgen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Authorhouse\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Authorhouse\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon Quixote Explained focuses on seven topics: how Sancho Panza refines into a good governor through a series of jokes that turn earnest; how Cervantes satirizes religious extremism in Don Quixote by taking aim at the Holy Roman Catholic Church; how Don Quixote and Sancho Panza check-and-balance one another's excesses by having opposite identities; how Cervantes refines Spanish farm girls by transforming Aldonza Lorenzo into Dulcinea; how outlaws like Roque Guinart and Gines Pasamonte can avoid criminality and why; how Cervantes establishes inter-religional harmony by having a Christian translator, on the one hand, and a Muslim narrator, on the other; and lastly, how Cervantes replaces a medieval view of love and marriage?where a woman is a housekeeper, lust-satisfier, and child begetter?with a modern view of equalitarian marriage typified by a joining of desires and a merger of personalities. \"AN ERUDITE EXAMINATION OF THE THEMES AND IDEAS IN DON QUIXOTE. I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED THE WRITING AND EXPOSITION OF THIS WELL-REASONED CRITIQUE. BUY IT AND STUDY IT. GERALD J. DAVIS, AUTHOR OF DON QUIXOTE, THE NEW TRANSLATION BY GERALD J. DAVIS\" WWW.DON-QUIXOTE-EXPLAINED.COM\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Authorhouse","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47598290894999,"sku":"9781481700962","price":2054.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781481700962.webp?v=1775000317","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/don-quixote-explained-the-story-of-an-unconventional-hero-9781481700962","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}