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Article: A letter to the editor.
- Article from:
- Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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This letter, published in PMLA 92 (1977): 125, is in response to Michael McCanles, "The Literal and the Metaphorical: Dialectic or Interchange," PMLA 91 (1976): 279-90. McCanles responds to Allen and other letterwriters in PMLA 92 (1977): 125-26.
To differ with Michael McCanles' interpretation of Don Quixote's recantation is not to disagree with the thrust of his illuminating and persuasive article, yet the issue is of such capital importance for our understanding of the work that it must be raised. It is true that "Don Quixote is a literalist par excellence" (p. 284), but it is not strictly true that, as McCanles goes on to say, "he cannot grasp the ...