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24 Lectures on Cervantes' Don Quixote
Syllabus
Professor
Roberto González Echevarría, Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature
Description
The course facilitates a close reading of Don Quixote in the artistic and historical context of renaissance and baroque Spain. Students are also expected to read four of Cervantes' Exemplary Stories, Cervantes' Don Quixote: A Casebook, and J.H. Elliott's Imperial Spain. Cervantes' work will be discussed in relation to paintings by Velázquez. The question of why Don Quixote is read today will be addressed throughout the course. Students are expected to know the book, the background readings and the materials covered in the lectures and class discussions.
Texts
De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated by John Rutherford and introduction by Roberto González Echevarría. New York: Penguin, 2001.
De Cervantes, Miguel. Exemplary Stories. Translated by Leslie Lipson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
González Echevarría, Roberto, ed. Cervantes' Don Quixote: A Casebook. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Elliott, John Huxtable. Imperial Spain, 1469-1716. New York: Penguin, 2002.
For those reading Cervantes in Spanish:
De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quijote de la Mancha, ed. Francisco Rico. Madrid: Real Academia Española, 2004.
Professor
Roberto González Echevarría, Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature
Description
The course facilitates a close reading of Don Quixote in the artistic and historical context of renaissance and baroque Spain. Students are also expected to read four of Cervantes' Exemplary Stories, Cervantes' Don Quixote: A Casebook, and J.H. Elliott's Imperial Spain. Cervantes' work will be discussed in relation to paintings by Velázquez. The question of why Don Quixote is read today will be addressed throughout the course. Students are expected to know the book, the background readings and the materials covered in the lectures and class discussions.
Texts
De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated by John Rutherford and introduction by Roberto González Echevarría. New York: Penguin, 2001.
De Cervantes, Miguel. Exemplary Stories. Translated by Leslie Lipson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
González Echevarría, Roberto, ed. Cervantes' Don Quixote: A Casebook. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Elliott, John Huxtable. Imperial Spain, 1469-1716. New York: Penguin, 2002.
For those reading Cervantes in Spanish:
De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quijote de la Mancha, ed. Francisco Rico. Madrid: Real Academia Española, 2004.
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Roberto González Echevarría
65 books28 followersRoberto González Echevarría is Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature at Yale.
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