Cervantes' Don Quixote /
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Open Yale courses series.
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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.