03467cam a2200289 i 4500 1261935258 TxAuBib 140925s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014031674 9780300198645 0300198647 (OCoLC)6549 DLC eng rda DLC YDX YDXCP BTCTA BDX OCLCF IAD DGU NLE JYJ GYG OCLCQ S3O OCLCQ R2A ASC TxAuBib rda Gonz♭lez Echevarr♭a, Roberto, author. Cervantes' Don Quixote / Roberto Gonz♭lez Echevarr♭a. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015] xiii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Open Yale courses series Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-358) and index. 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 Gin♭s 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 Desenga♭o -- Don Quixote's doubles -- Present varieties of classical myths: Ovid, Cervantes, and Vel♭zquez -- 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. 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 Gonz♭lez Echevarr♭a'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. Gonz♭lez Echevarr♭a 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 would mesh with his desires. -- from back cover. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de 1547-1616 Don Quixote. Open Yale courses series.