 | Discovering the Comic in Don Quixote Subjects: Cervantes Saavedra Miguel de 1547-1616. Don Quixote; Cervantes Saavedra Miguel de 1547-1616 -- Humor; Comic The in literature; Gorfkle challenges the assumption that the comic is inferior to the tragic as a vehicle for expressing serious thought and the belief that the comic has only a secondary function in Cervantes's Don Quixote . She systematically surveys the comic mechanisms of the novel from the perspectives of the contemporary literary theories of Bakhtin, Girard, and Derrida. |
