{"id":4123,"date":"2024-04-17T05:30:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T10:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/?page_id=4123"},"modified":"2024-12-11T15:48:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T20:48:04","slug":"don-quixote","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/don-quixote\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Quixote"},"content":{"rendered":"
Don Quixote<\/em>‘s Impossible Quest for the Absolute in Literature:\u00a0<\/em>Fiction, Reflection, and Negative Theology\u00a0<\/em>(Routledge 2024)<\/a><\/h5>\n

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“This is one of the very best, most interesting studies of Cervantes\u2019\u00a0Don Quixote<\/i>\u00a0that I have read in some time. . . . I consistently found myself engaged by the argument, fascinated by the detailed analyses, and impressed by the depth of thought in evidence in this work. It\u2019s clear that Franke really \u201cgets\u201d the complexity and the importance of Don Quixote, and he does a superb job communicating this to the reader. . . .In a scholarly landscape that is littered with studies of Don Quixote that often fail to do justice to Cervantes\u2019 text, Franke\u2019s study stands out for the way in which it truly captures the profundity of the work.”<\/p>\n

–Anthony J. Cascardi<\/b>, Sidney and Margaret Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature,\u00a0University of California<\/i>, Berkeley<\/p>\n

A celebrated scholar\u00a0of\u00a0Dante and of the discipline known as apophatic theology or negative theology, William Franke in Don Quixote\u2019s\u00a0Impossible Quest for the Absolute in Literature<\/i>\u00a0offers us a tour-de force\u00a0interpretation\u00a0of\u00a0how Cervantes searches for\u00a0God\u2019s revelation of\u00a0truth in theologically diverse\u00a0 apophatic discourses. Franke\u2019s exegetical reflections converse with Ortega\u2019s, Unamuno\u2019s, and\u00a0Zambrano\u2019s respective meditations on Cervantes\u2019s masterpiece, allowing the\u00a0reader to get a taste of the parodic\u00a0laughter in\u00a0Don<\/i>\u00a0Quixote<\/i>, a mode of discourse that\u00a0speaks (or rather\u00a0un-speaks) of the impossible quest for the transcendent and\u00a0the divine. Franke\u2019s is a\u00a0complex and excellent\u00a0book that sheds insight upon Don Quixote\u2019s experience of the divine around him.<\/p>\n

–Antonio Cortijo Oca\u00f1a<\/b>, Professor,\u00a0University of California,<\/i>\u00a0Santa Barbara<\/p>\n

William Franke\u2019s\u00a0Don Quixote\u2019s Impossible Quest for the Absolute in Literature: Fiction, Reflection, and Negative Theology<\/i>\u00a0could hardly be a more ambitious project, and I believe that the results are brilliant. Professor Franke has analyzed\u00a0Don Quixote\u00a0<\/i>using his unique and wide-ranging background in literature, culture, theology, and philosophy, not to mention his familiarity with the meta- offspring of Cervantes\u2019s work. I find the framing of the theses and arguments to be superb. The critic lays the foundations for his particular readings, upon which readers can reflect and debate.<\/p>\n

-Edward H. Friedman,\u00a0<\/b>Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor in the Humanities,\u00a0Vanderbilt University,\u00a0Tennessee<\/p>\n

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