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标题：Narrative Time in Don Quijote from Parody to Paradigm
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作者：L. A. Murillo
期刊名称：Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
印刷版ISSN：0277-6995
出版年度：2009
卷号：XXIX
期号：02
页码：203-203
出版社：Cervantes Society of America
摘要：I will begin with the simplest statement I can make about narrative time in Don Quijote.1 Narrative time in the book, Part I, 1605, Part II, 1615, is solar time. It is that simple. The story is etched out according to sunlight on Spanish soil, as the sun determines night and day, dawn and dusk, and its effects on the inhabitants en un lugar de la Mancha. When Cervantes committed himself as exemplary narrator to parody the style and action of chivalric romances, libros de caballerías, he necessarily adopted as his means, that is to say, as models, their scale of narrative,— hours, days, years, according to solar motion. Those chivalric narratives like Amadís de Gaula and Esplandián are as for time and space historical accounts or chronicles: adventures, trials, travels, told in units of time, from hours of the day, months, to years but within an immutable generic season of summer.