Spanish 260
Cervantes’ Don Quixote
Close reading and analysis of Don Quixote along with
selected works form the Novelas ejemplares and the Entremeses. This
course will focus on questions of literary, linguistic, cultural, and
historical heterogeneity in Don Quixote. Drawing on the work of Mikhail
Bakhtin, we will examine the Quixote as an example of
"heteroglossia," i.e. as a work situated within a context of
multiple, competing, and transitional discourses. We will examine the social
and historical context of Cervantes' ployglot universe, and we will look at the
Quixote as a dialectical response to pre-existing literary forms. From an
aesthetic perspective we will focus on Don Quixote as an example of the
European baroque. Along with the works of Cervantes, we will read selections
from major Renaissance works inside of
Syllabus
Week 1, August 29
Introduction: Reading Don Quixote
Course method, aims, and
requirements
For historical background,
consult: Barry
Week 2, Sept. 5
DQ, I: ch. 1-8
Ramón Menéndez-Pidal, “The
Genesis of Don Quixote” (in Casebook)
Lloréns, “La intención del Quixote”
(in reader)
Primera salida
El escrutinio de los libros
La identidad de Don Quixote
Week 3, Sept. 12
DQ, I: ch. 9-16
Castro, “El cómo y el por qué
de Cide Hamete Benengeli”(in reader)
Wardropper, “Don Quixote:
Story or History?” in Casebook
Cascardi, “Secularization and
Literary Self-Assertion in Don Quixote” (in reader)
Don Quixote y los cabreros
Marcela y Grisóstomo
Maritornes
Week 4, Sept. 19
DQ, I: ch.16-26
Spitzer, “Linguistic Perspectivism
in the Don Quijote” (in Casebook)
Los rebaños
El cuerpo muerto; los encamisados
Los galeotes y Ginés de Pasamonte
Discurso sobre la edad de oro
El cuento de Lope Ruiz y Torralba (Sancho)
Don Quixote en Sierra Morena
Cardenio
Versos de Don Quixote a Dulcinea
La estrategia
Week 5, Sept. 26
DQ, I: ch. 27-32
Lazarillo de Tormes
Rico, “Vuestra Merced recibe
una carta” (in reader)
El Cura, el Barbero, y el disfraz
El informe de Sancho sobre Dulciunea
Las historias de Cardenio, Luscinda, Fernando, y Dorotea
Don Quixoe escribe a Dulcinea
Week 6, October 3
DQ, I: ch. 33-38
Cervantes, Novelas
ejemplares: “El Celoso extremeño”
Cervantes, Entremeses:
“El juez de los divorcios”; “El viejo celoso”
Historia
del “Curioso impertinente”
Week 7, October 10
DQ, I: ch. 39-52
McKeon, “Cervantes and the
Disenchantment of the World” (in reader)
Historia
Discursos teóricos; novela y “romance”
Leandra y Vicente de la
Don Quixote vuelve a casa
Week 8, October 17
DQ, II: ch. 1-13
Cascardi, “Cervantes and the
Invention of the Novel” (in
Sansón Carrasco
Sancho y Teresa Panza
“Dulcinea”
Week 9, October 24
DQ, II: ch. 14-24
Montaigne, Essais
(photocopy)
El Caballero
En la Cueva de Montesinos
El Primo humanista
Week 10, October 31
DQ, I: ch. 25-35
Cervantes, Entremeses:
“El Retablo de las maravillas”
Erasmus: Praise of Folly
(photocopy)
Girard, “Triangular Desire”
(in reader)
George Haley, “The Narrator
in Don Quixote” in (Casebook)
Los rebuznos
Maese Pedro
El barco encantado
Dulcinea encantada
Week 11, November 7
DQ, II: ch. 36-41
Mazzotta, “The Ludic
Perspective: Don Quixote and the Italian Renaissance” (in reader)
La Dueña Dolorida
Carta de Sancho a Teresa
Trifaldí
Clavileño
Week 12, November 14
DQ, II: ch. 42-53
Nabokov, “Cruelty and
Violence” (in reader)
Adrienne Martin, “Humor and
Violence” (in
Sancho gobernador de Barataria
Los Duques
Los consejos de Don Quixote
Carta de Don Quixote a Sancho en la ínsula
Week 13, November 21
DQ, II: ch. 54-65
El Abencerraje
Guillén, “Literature as
Historical Contradiction” (in reader)
Ricote
Tosilos
Roque Guinart / Claudia
En
Don Antonio Moreno
La imprenta
Ana Félix
Week 14, November 28
DQ, II: ch. 66-74
El Caballero de la Blanca Luna
El cuerpo de Altisidora
La muerte de Don Qiuxote
Week 15, December 5
Conclusión, fin.
Terry Gilliam, Lost in