Experiencing the limits
Carles Magrinyà Badiella
The meaning of the cave is ancestral. It a transitional space that functions as threshold between real, mystical, and imaginary. Experiences in caves are highly important history religions literature, have been adopted transculturally by mystics, esoteric organizations, alchemical treatises, many literary forms, such Greek novel, Dante’s Commedia, chivalric romances. In my paper, I will first give an interdisciplinary overview representations this different traditions works up to Renaissance. then focus on how Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote updates these representations, study visions experiences knight crucial his recovery from insanity.
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