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Cervantes' Don Quixote

✍ Scribed by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de;González Echevarría, Roberto

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Series
Open Yale courses series
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Introduction: why read the Quixote? -- Chivalric romances and picaresque novels: antecedents of the Quixote -- Don Quixote and Sancho on the road: books and windmills -- Literature and life: the Quixote and Las Meninas -- Ugliness and improvisation: Juan Palomeque's Inn -- Modern authors: Cervantes and Ginés de Pasamonte -- Love and the law: interrupted stories -- Memory and narrative: stories within stories -- Love stories resolved: fictions and metafictions -- Fugitives from justice caught: restitutions as closure at The inn -- The senses of endings: finishing the Quixote, Part I -- On to Part II: the real and the bogus Quixote -- Renaissance (1605) and Baroque (1615) Quixotes -- Deceiving and undeceiving: Baroque Desengao -- Don Quixote's doubles -- Present varieties of classical myths: Ovid, Cervantes, and Velasquez -- Caves and puppet shows: internal and external representations -- Don Quixote and Sancho in the hands of frivolous aristocrats -- Bearded ladies and flying horses: the duke's house of tricks -- King for a day: Sancho's Barataria -- Borders and ends: moriscos and bandits -- Dancing and defeat in Barcelona: Don Quixote heads home -- The meaning of the end: Don Quixote's death -- Cervantes' death and legacy.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction: why read the Quixote? --
Chivalric romances and picaresque novels: antecedents of the Quixote --
Don Quixote and Sancho on the road: books and windmills --
Literature and life: the Quixote and Las Meninas --
Ugliness and improvisation: Juan Palomeque's Inn --
Modern authors: Cervantes and Ginés de Pasamonte --
Love and the law: interrupted stories --
Memory and narrative: stories within stories --
Love stories resolved: fictions and metafictions --
Fugitives from justice caught: restitutions as closure at The inn --
The senses of endings: finishing the Quixote, Part I --
On to Part II: the real and the bogus Quixote --
Renaissance (1605) and Baroque (1615) Quixotes --
Deceiving and undeceiving: Baroque Desengao --
Don Quixote's doubles --
Present varieties of classical myths: Ovid, Cervantes, and Velasquez --
Caves and puppet shows: internal and external representations --
Don Quixote and Sancho in the hands of frivolous aristocrats --
Bearded ladies and flying horses: the duke's house of tricks --
King for a day: Sancho's Barataria --
Borders and ends: moriscos and bandits --
Dancing and defeat in Barcelona: Don Quixote heads home --
The meaning of the end: Don Quixote's death --
Cervantes' death and legacy.

✦ Subjects

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, -- 1547-1616. -- Don Quixote;Don Quixote (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de);Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de -- 1547-1616 -- Don Quijote;Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, -- 1547-1616

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