"Lec 2 - Don Quixote, Part I: Front Matter and Chapters I-X" Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) Overview: Why does the Quixote have such common currency today? González Echevarría believes that the Quixote is about the effect that literature has on its readers and about the creation of literature. Its story does not belong to any previous tradition but it is a new story, and this act of invention by a fifty-year old man, Cervantes, is in itself part of modern literature. González Echevarría comments on why the creation of this work was possible in the Spain of the seventeenth century and, after making some important distinctions between the concepts novel and romance, chivalric romances and courtly romance, explains that the Quixote is the first novel because it portrays the clash between the protagonist and his setting for the first time. He then talks about the Quixote's precursors in the picaresque novel and the beginnings of realism. The lecture ends with a thorough commentary on the prologue, its intentions and meanings, along with the concepts of authorship, the legitimation of literature, and ultimately, self invention. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Don Quixote and its Effect on Readers 09:10 - Chapter 2. Distinguishing between Novel and Romance 15:48 - Chapter 3. Chivalric Romance and Courtly Romance 22:38 - Chapter 4. Cervantes within the Genealogy of the Spanish Tradition 42:27 - Chapter 5. The Prologue and its Intentions Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Fall 2009.
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Lec 1 - Introduction - Cervantes Don Quixote
Lec 3 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters I-X (cont.)
Lec 4 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XI-XX
Lec 5 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XI-XX (cont.)
Lec 6 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XXI-XXVI
Lec 7 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XXI-XXVI (cont.)
Lec 8 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XXVII-XXXV
Lec 9 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XXVII-XXXV (cont.)
Lec 10 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XXXVI-LII
Lec 11 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XXXVI-LII (cont.)
Lec 12 - Don Quixote, Introduction to Part II
Lec 13 - Don Quixote, Part II: Front Matter and Chapters I-XI
Lec 14 - Don Quixote, Part II: Front Matter and Chapters I-XI (cont.)
Lec 15 - Don Quixote, Part II: Chapters XII-XXI
Lec 16 - Don Quixote, Part II: Chapters XII-XXI (cont.)
Lec 17 - Don Quixote, Part II: Chapters XXII-XXXV
Lec 18 - Don Quixote, Part II: Chapters XXII-XXXV (cont.)
Lec 19 - Don Quixote, Part II: Chapters XXXVI-LIII
Lec 20 - Don Quixote, Part II: Chapters XXXVI-LIII (cont.)
Lec 21 - Don Quixote, Part II: Chapters LIV-LXX
Lec 22 - Don Quixote, Part II: Chapters LIV-LXX (cont.)
Lec 23 - Don Quixote, Part II: Chapters LXXI-LXXIV
Lec Last - Don Quixote, Part II: Chapters LXXI-LXXIV (cont.)