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Lecture 24

Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) Would have Cervantes deserved such recognition, had he not written the Quixote? The answer is no. However, he would probably be remembered for some of his other works....

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Lecture 23

Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) González Echevarría focuses on the end of the Quixote. He starts referring to Cervantes' humor, which allows us to see humanity in contrast to the mad hero and thus...

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Lecture 22

Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) As we approach the end of the novel, Cervantes compresses and combines elements from different types of romances (morisco, Greek, pastoral) in what seems to be an...

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Lecture 21

Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) Three issues related to the impending end of the novel define this lecture. The first one is improvisation, as we see it in the confluence of actual geography with...

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Lecture 20

Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) According to González Echevarría, Don Quixote's epic task within the novel is to control his madness by accepting the vanity of his dreams and the futility of his...

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Lecture 19

Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) The developments of Part II of the Quijote are based and measured against Part I. In the episode of the afflicted matron, the story about Countess Trifaldi, and...

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Lecture 18

Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) The fact that the second part of the Quixote is the first political novel is manifested in several ways. The second part adds (taken from the picaresque novel)...

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Lecture 17

Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) This lecture covers two of the most important episodes of Part II of the Quixote: the descent into Montesinos cave and Master Peter's puppet show. The first one, on...

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Lecture 16

Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) The loose format of the Quixote allows for the incorporation of different stories and texts, such as the Camacho's wedding, which was going to be a play. The episode,...

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Lecture 15

Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) González Echevarría starts by reviewing the Spanish baroque concept of desengaño. He proposes that the plot of the Quixote and some of the stories in part two unfold...

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Lecture 14

Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) Commentary of the key concepts of Spanish Baroque, desengaño, introduces González Echevarría's suggestion that the plot of the Quixote follows a Baroque unfolding from...

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Lecture 13

Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) The modern novel that develops from the Quixote is essentially a political novel and an urban genre dealing with cities. In Part II there is a sense of the text being...

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Lecture 12

Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) González Echevarría talks about the transition that we, as present-day readers undergo, between Part I, published in 1605, and Part II of the Quixote, published in...

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Lecture 11

Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) The lecture focuses on the ending of the first part of the Quixote, which for the seventeenth-century reader was, simply, the end because no second part existed yet or...

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Lecture 10

Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) González Echevarría starts by commenting on three of the returns and repetitions (characters who reappear and incidents that, if not repeated, recall previous...

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Lecture 9

Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) The insertion of the Novel of the Curious Impertinent at the end of part one of the Quixote may be explained by Cervantes' intention of meshing both the forms of the...

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Lecture 8

Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) In this part of the Quixote, Cervantes makes a boast of narrative mastery by combining the sequential structure of the chivalric romance with the multiple story design...

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Lecture 7

Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) Professor González Echevarría resumes his commentary on the galley slaves episode by talking about Ginés' cross-eyedness as a metaphor for congenital internal...

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Lecture 6

Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) Important meditations about the nature of literature and the real take place in the chapters commented on in this lecture. Reality appears strange enough even to Don...

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Lecture 5

Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) After pointing out the prosaic world depicted in the Quixote with subtle but sharp irony, González Echevarría analyzes the episode at Juan Palomeque's inn, which may...

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