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    Lec 11 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XXXVI-LII (cont.)

    "Lec 11 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XXXVI-LII (cont.)" Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) The lecture focuses on the ending of the first part of the Quixote, which for the seventeenth-century reader was, simply, the end because no second part existed yet or was envisioned. Probably because it represents a difficult process (since the Quixote is not an ordinary story with a clear beginning) the end is already contained in the prologue, which also works as an epilogue echoing the characteristics of the meta-novel. With this in mind, González Echevarría comments on episodes that constitute partial endings: the caging of Don Quixote, and the prophecy contrived by the barber foretelling a possible ending for Don Quixote's fantasies. The conversation among Don Quixote, the priest and the canon of Toledo, who ironically is the "idle reader" from the prologue and a critic of chivalric romances, explores the multiple possibilities of the romances of chivalry, which Cervantes follows in his novel, with the Poetics of Aristotle in the background. The episode is also a critique of Lope de Vega and his innovative plays. Here is one of the great ironies in literary history: that Cervantes, while being wildly original in narrative fiction, was exceedingly conservative in the theater. Don Quixote's arrival at his village has made him madder; it is now the space of the uncanny and the unfamiliar. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Bringing a Meta-Novel to a Close 07:17 - Chapter 2. Episodes that Constitute Partial Endings 24:54 - Chapter 3. Relevant Background Texts 47:21 - Chapter 4. Don Quixote's Arrival at the Village 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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