TY - JOUR N2 - This study is an exploration of formal-aesthetic correspondences between presenta-tion strategies and techniques of transforming traditional literary and musical genre conventions in Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Alban Berg’s opera Wozzeck. It takes as its bottom line William J. Entwistle’s distinction between re-creation and recreation (he used it in his appreciation of Don Quixote and so did Erich Auerbach) and his under-standing of art as an act of reproduction (re-creation) obliged to please (recreation). Seen from that perspective, both Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Berg’s opera “suffer” from ex-cess – overmuchness and surfeit with a tangible residue of melancholy. But it is because of these surpluses that these two works are regarded as masterpieces with continuing universal appeal. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/127080/PDF/2022-06-RL-05.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/127080 PY - 2022 IS - No 6 (375) EP - 1040 DO - 10.24425/rl.2022.143005 KW - Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) KW - Don Quixote KW - Alban Berg (1885–1935) KW - Wozzeck KW - the Second Viennese School KW - mimetic criticism KW - William J. Entwistle (1895–1952) KW - Erich Auerbach (1892–1957) KW - expressionism KW - excess KW - melancholy KW - masterpiece A1 - Lisiecka, Katarzyna PB - Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka PB - Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki DA - 2023.05.04 T1 - Epic heights… Don Quixote and Alban Berg's Wozzeck – operatic transposition of conventions SP - 1025 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/127080 T2 - Ruch Literacki ER -