"Lec 10 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XXXVI-LII" Cervantes' Don Quixote (SPAN 300) González Echevarría starts by commenting on three of the returns and repetitions (characters who reappear and incidents that, if not repeated, recall previous incidents) that take place at the end of part one of the Quixote and which give density to the fiction: the galley slaves, Andrés, and the postprandial speech or the speech on arms and letters. Don Quixote's insanity not only gives him a certain transcendence, but also shows the arbitrariness of laws, which causes their rejection by society and other characters' insane behavior. González Echevarría comments on the intersection between literature and history before moving on to the captive's tale, the culmination of those intertwined stories, in which religious conversion overcomes social barriers and transcends the neo-platonic convergence of opposites in Renaissance plots. With his creation of Don Quixote, the first hero-fugitive from justice in the Western tradition--a "highway robber," as the officer of the Holy Brotherhood calls him--Cervantes has created the first important novelistic protagonist drawn from the legal archives. His is the case of the insane hidalgo who set out to act out chivalric fantasies and in the process committed a series of crimes. And yet, he is the agent of Providence. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Returns and Repetitions 08:15 - Chapter 2. The Postprandial Speech 24:34 - Chapter 3. The Captive's Tale 40:05 - Chapter 4. A Very Strange Episode 43:03 - Chapter 5. Remarks about the End of Part I 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 2 - Don Quixote, Part I: Front Matter and Chapters I-X
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 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.)