John C. Weiger
The Individuated Self: Cervantes and the Emergence of the Individual.
Ohio University Press, 1979. First edition. 0821403966 xvi/183 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.5", is bound in light brown cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear, with minor closed tears at top edges. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"Not only in "Don Quixote" but as well in his other works of fiction, epic and drama, Cervantes concerns himself with the varied means by which human beings emerge from their anonymous beginnings to forge a role for themselves as individuals. Not to be confused with individualism, the psychological and social processes of individuation are presented in Cervantes' characters through diverse means. Like Don Quixote, most of the characters encounter experiences quite unlike what they had expected to find - yet they do find their niche, their individuality. These richly variegated kinds of experiences in the works of Cervantes which enable the individual characters to realize what is appropriate for them constitute the focus of "The Individuated Self."