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11. Quixote as anti-heroe

Readings:

Texts:

• Miguel De Cervantes. Don Quijote de la Mancha, ed. Francisco Rico. Madrid: Real Academia Española, 2004.
• Miguel De Cervantes. Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated by John Rutherford and introduction by Roberto González Echevarría. New York: Penguin, 2001.
• Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote. A new translation by Edith Grossman. Introduction by Harold Bloom. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005.

Chapters to read:

• Primera parte: 1-8, 15-18, 21-22, 25, 28-30, 32, 36-37
• Segunda parte: 1-3, 8-10, 12-15, 17, 22-23, 32-42, 45, 60-61, 63-65, 67-68, 74.
• Versión en español en línea: DAEM Copiapó y Cervantes, Universidad de Alcalá
• A Guide chapter by chapter: H-Cervantes, h-net.org

Studies:

• Allen, John Jay. “The Narrators, the Reader, and Don Quixote..” In: Don Quixote, Hero or Fool?, Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1979. Excerpts.
• Borges, Jorge Luis: Pierre Ménard, Author of Don Quixote (1939)
• Bandera, Cesáreo. “Don Quixote’s Madness and Modernity.” In: The Humble Story of Don Quixote: Reflections on the Birth of the Modern Novel. Washington, DC: Catholic U of America P, 2006.

Optional:

• Cascardi, Anthony. Cervantes, Literature and the Discourse of Politics, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. Introduction, pp.3-19
• • Close, Anthony J. A companion to Don Quixote. Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : Tamesis, 2008.

Films, series:

• El Quijote, RTVE 1992.
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