Don Quixote and Prospero: readings, readers that are being read, and the power of imagination

This essay explores the similarities in the way Alonso Quijano in Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Prospero in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest relate as readers to their acts of reading and to their books. The former ones, although apparently reject...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Longres, María Isabel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Uruguay
Institución:Universidad de Montevideo
Repositorio:REDUM
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:redum.um.edu.uy:20.500.12806/2185
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.um.edu.uy/index.php/revistahumanidades/article/view/189
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:El Quijote
Próspero
lectores leídos
lecturas
imaginación
ficción
Don Quixote
Prospero
read-readers
readings
imagination
Dom Quixote
Leitores
Imaginação
Ficção
Descripción
Sumario:This essay explores the similarities in the way Alonso Quijano in Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Prospero in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest relate as readers to their acts of reading and to their books. The former ones, although apparently rejected, are in fact, celebrated as the means that enhance the development of the imagination and fictional creation.