Cervantes’s “Republic”: On Representation, Imitation, and Unreason

eHumanista 47:89-111 (2021)
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ABSTRACT This essay deals with the relation between representation, imitation, and the affects in Don Quixote. In so doing, it focuses on Cervantes’s Platonist poetics and his own views of imitation and the books of knighthood. Although most readers, translators, and critics have until now deemed Cervantes’s use of the word “republic” in Don Quixote unimportant, the word “república” or republic is in fact the entry point to Cervantes’ Platonist critique of the novels of knighthood, and his notions of writing, imitation, and the emotions.

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Rolando Perez
Hunter College

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