Don Quixote’s Irony: Reverse Reading lessons

  • Pedro Guerrero Ruiz Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • María Teresa Caro Valverde Departamento de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura
  • María González García Departamento de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_DIDA.2011.v23.36315
Keywords: imagination, classic, hypertext, irony.

Abstract

This article raises the educational power of imagination in order to propose symbols which communicate author and reader. Thanks to it, classics of Literature keep alive after their writing days, thanks to the readers’ capability to get friendly with the text and renew it creatively with other perspectives and new hypertexts which break out an infinite semiosis. Don Quixote is an ideal book to stimulate creative readings due to its hospitable condition towards any culture or generation. Irony is the nuclear rhetoric of the Cervantes’ classic and it provokes ‘lessons’ of opposite reading, sane interpretations for crazy examples. When reading it, you learn to use fantasy not for the belief in the meanings but for the critic sense towards the reference world.

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Pedro Guerrero Ruiz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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María Teresa Caro Valverde, Departamento de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura
Departamento de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura
María González García, Departamento de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura
Departamento de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura

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Guerrero Ruiz P., Caro Valverde M. T. y González García M. (2011). Don Quixote’s Irony: Reverse Reading lessons. Didáctica. Lengua y Literatura, 23, 183-194. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_DIDA.2011.v23.36315
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Vol. 23 (2011)
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