DON QUIXOTE'S WOMEN (Kobiety Don Kichota)

• Authors: Krupecka Iwona
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of this essay is to present the most important female protagonists in their interaction with Don Quixote. The vision of Golden Age introduces significant ambiguity into the woman's image: she is essentially related to fertile Mother Nature and, at the same time, is to fulfill the ascetic ideal unceasingly menaced by bodily passions. Both the ideal and Don Quixote are put to the test by particular female protagonists using their body, literary conventions and social relations. Marcela chooses the pastoral romance to gain the autonomy but at once needs to leave the society, Dorothea gets identity inside the social order through the chivalric romance, while Duchess takes her power from the social status. The Death's figure connected with Duchess shows that the real opposition organizing the novel might not be idealism/materialism or mind/body but both these elements put against the social order.

Keywords

EN

DON QUIXOTE; FEMALE

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Warsaw University, Institute of Philosophy, Institute of Polish Literature and Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1(26)
• Pages: 235-254
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Krupecka Iwona

• Iwona Krupecka, Uniwersytet Gdanski, Instytut Filozofii, Socjologii i Dziennikarstwa, Zaklad Historii Filozofii Nowozytnej, ul. Bielanska 5, 80-851 Gdansk, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA077026