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Don Quijote

Contents

  • The Text of Don Quijote
  • MAP: Spain at the End of the Sixteenth Century
  • MAP: Cervantes’s Andalusia
  • Don Quijote
  • Backgrounds and Contexts
  • CERVANTES IN HIS OWN VOICE
    • [Fear of Publishing] (from Prologue to La Galatea)
    • [Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man] (Prologue to Exemplary Novels)
    • [Cervantes’s Self-Critique] (from Voyage to Parnassus)
    • [Cervantes’s Last Words] (from Prologue to Persiles and Sigismunda)
  • SOURCES AND INFLUENCES
    • Jacopo Sannazaro, From Arcadia (Chapter One)
    • Garci Rodri!gues de Montalvo, From Amadis of Gaul (The Penance of Poor Cliff)
    • Ludovico Ariosto, From Orlando Furioso (Canto 23)
    • Alonso Ferna!ndez de Avellaneda, Prologue to the "False Quijote"
    • Patricia Finch and John J. Allen, Don Quijote across the Centuries
  • Criticism
  • GENERAL ESSAYS ON DON QUIJOTE
    • Carlos Fuentes, Foreword
    • Harold Bloom, Cervantes: The Play of the World
    • Javier Herrero, Who Was Dulcinea?
    • Anthony J. Cascardi, Personal Identity in Don Quixote
    • Michel Foucault, [Don Quixote as Hero of the Same]
  • ESSAYS ON SELECTED EPISODES OF DON QUIJOTE
    • Elias L. Rivers, [Cervantes’s Revolutionary Prologue]
    • Ruth Anthony El Saffar, In Marcela’s Case
    • Robert ter Horst, Sex and the Chain Gang
    • Edward Dudley, [Rescuing Dorotea]
    • Nicol·s Wey-GŪmez, Anselmo’s Eating Disorder
    • Maria Antonia Garce!s, [Cervantes’s Veiled Woman]
    • Henry W. Sullivan, [The Duke’s Theatre of Sadism]
    • Carroll B. Johnson, [Dreaming in the Cave of Montesinos]
    • Anne J. Cruz, Don Quijote’s Disappearing Act
    • FICCIONES ON DON QUIJOTE
    • Jorge Luis Borges, Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
  • Miguel de Cervantes: A Chronology
  • Selected Bibliography