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      • The Power of Literature: “Don Quixote” is a meta-fictional work that reflects on the nature and power of literature. Quixote’s obsession with chivalric romance reflects the influence of literature on society and the way that stories can shape our perceptions of reality.
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  2. Apr 3, 2014 · Don Quixote: The Origin of Realism and Metafiction. Adapting genres, Cervantes created two new ones: realism and metafiction, says Robert Alter in Partial Magic (1979). The “juxtaposition of high-flown literary fantasies with grubby actuality” established realism, while the “zestfully ostentatious manipulation” of the artifice of ...

  3. Quick answer: A metafictional element of Don Quixote is Quixote's desire to live as a knight from a literary romance. By having this metafictional dream constantly confront the...

  4. What is the role of metafiction in “Don Quixote”? “Don Quixote” is a work of metafiction, as the novel frequently comments on its own status as a work of fiction . This literary device allows Cervantes to explore the nature of storytelling and the relationship between reality and fiction .

  5. Much has been written about the metafictional aspects of Cervantes’s Don Quijote (1605, 1615), a novel that continues to receive the accolades of literary critics and creative writers after four hundred years of circulation in various languages (Close, “Is Cervantes”).

  6. Literary Metafiction in Don Quixote. Paper written for Professor Friedman's Don Quijote and the Experimental Novel, Fall 2008. Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.

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  7. Don Quixote complex and investigations into fictionality. 2017 •. Lena Séraphin. The doctoral dissertation The Don Quixote Complex and Investigations into Fictionality is based on the notion of mutable identity: The impulse that if I were another, the work I create would also be other.

  8. Mar 29, 2014 · Poetry litters the pages: sonnets, ballads, rustic love songs, pastoral poems, complaints, epitaphs and spiritual verse. The novel is a veritable catalog of genres, a compendium of literary types. It is a book of books, striving to represent the literary world in miniature (if a 944-page book can be a “miniature”).