Cervantes' "Don Quixote" / Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

González Echevarría, Roberto, Author.

Series:

Open Yale courses series.

The Open Yale Courses Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The novel Don Quixote, written in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is widely considered to be one of the greatest fictional works in the entire canon of Western literature. At once farcical and deeply philosophical, Cervantes' novel and its characters have become integrated into the cultures of the Western Hemisphere, influencing language and modern thought while inspiring art and artists such as Richard Strauss and Pablo Picasso. Based on Professor Roberto González Echevarría's popular open course at Yale University, this essential guide to the enduring Spanish classic facilitates a close reading of Don Quixote in the artistic and historical context of renaissance and baroque Spain while exploring why Cervantes' masterwork is still widely read and relevant today. González Echevarría addresses the novel's major themes and demonstrates how the story of an aging, deluded would-be knight-errant embodies that most modern of predicaments: the individual's dissatisfaction with the world in which he lives, and his struggle to make that world mesh with his desires.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

A Note on the Texts

1. Introduction: Why Read the Quixote?

2. Chivalric Romances and Picaresque Novels: Antecedents of the Quixote

3. Don Quixote and Sancho on the Road: Books and Windmills

4. Literature and Life: Th e Quixote and Las Meninas

5. Ugliness and Improvisation: Juan Palomeque's Inn

6. Modern Authors: Cervantes and Ginés de Pasamonte

7. Love and the Law: Interrupted Stories

8. Memory and Narrative: Stories within Stories

9. Love Stories Resolved: Fictions and Metafictions

10. Fugitives from Justice Caught: Restitutions as Closure at the Inn

11. The Senses of Endings: Finishing the Quixote, Part I

12. On to Part II: The Real and the Bogus Quixote

13. Renaissance (1605) and Baroque (1615) Quixotes

14. Deceiving and Undeceiving: Baroque Desengaño

15. Don Quixote's Doubles

16. Present Varieties of Classical Myths: Ovid, Cervantes, and Velázquez

17. Caves and Puppet Shows: Internal and External Representations

18. Don Quixote and Sancho in the Hands of Frivolous Aristocrats

19. Bearded Ladies and Flying Horses: Th e Duke's House of Tricks

20. King for a Day: Sancho's Barataria

21. Borders and Ends: Moriscos and Bandits

22. Dancing and Defeat in Barcelona: Don Quixote Heads Home

23. The Meaning of the End: Don Quixote's Death

24. Cervantes' Death and Legacy

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-21331-X

OCLC:

905902814