This is not another volume on the multinational reception of Don Quixote, but an approach to the quixotic myth in a systematic and rigorous manner, proposing and applying a theory for its study. Rather than a compilation of texts with heterogeneous approaches, united by their quixotic theme or spatio-temporal framework (the transatlantic sphere in the 20^th and 21^st centuries), the focus of the contributions is to apply the parameters and concepts of the theoretical model to a transmedial and transnational corpus of works so as to to shed light on their relationships with the underlying architextual paradigm, but also on the works themselves from the vantage point of that paradigm, without excluding their connection with their historical, cultural and ideological contexts.

This does not entail applying every element of the theoretical model to each work, but rather that each author will choose the most pertinent elements for illuminating their corpus and the functioning of myth within it. The goal is to establish a global vision of the theory and praxis of the quixotic myth, as well as an overview of its circulation throughout national territories and media spheres in the 20^th and 21^st centuries.