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presents the case of the feudal man confronted with a newly
visually quantified and homogeneous world. In Lowenthal’s
Literature and the Image of Man (p. 21) we read how
Fundamentally the themes of his novel are those of an old
way of life being replaced by a new order. Cervantes
stresses the resulting conflicts in two ways: through the
struggles of the Knight, and through the contrast
between him and Sancho Panza. Don Quixote lives in a
fantasy world of the vanishing feudal hierarchy; the
people with whom he deals, however, are merchants,
minor functionaries in the government, unimportant
intellectuals—in short, they are, like Sancho, people who
want to get ahead in the world and, therefore, direct their
energies to the things which will bring them profit.
In choosing the great folios of medieval romances