CERVANTES’ DON QUIXOTE AND THE FORMATION OF THE MODERN NOVEL

Undergraduate

This course studies Don Quixote in the context of Cervantes’ life and times. It examines the novel’s social, political, and historical context; its reception in seventeenth-century Spanish society; the narrative structure and its determinants of gender and class; the intertextuality with major classical works of the Renaissance; and the metafictional, self-reflexive characteristics of the text. A variety of literary theory approaches are studied. The course is generally given in Spanish. PREREQUISITES: Spanish 2020 or permission of the instructor