Ranked #1
20 - Don Quixote, Part II: Chapters XXXVI-LIII (cont.)
20 - Don Quixote, Part II: Chapters XXXVI-LIII (cont.)
According to González Echevarría, Don Quixote's epic task within the novel is to control his madness by accepting the va... Read more
11 Apr 2011
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56mins
Ranked #2
10 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XXXVI-LII
10 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XXXVI-LII
González Echevarría starts by commenting on three of the returns and repetitions (characters who reappear and incidents ... Read more
10 Apr 2011
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58mins
Ranked #3
09 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XXVII-XXXV (cont.)
09 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XXVII-XXXV (cont.)
The insertion of the Novel of the Curious Impertinent at the end of part one of the Quixote may be explained by Cervante... Read more
10 Apr 2011
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57mins
Ranked #4
17 - Don Quixote, Part II: Chapters XXII-XXXV
17 - Don Quixote, Part II: Chapters XXII-XXXV
This lecture covers two of the most important episodes of Part II of the Quixote: the descent into Montesinos cave and M... Read more
10 Apr 2011
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1hr
Ranked #5
18 - Don Quixote, Part II: Chapters XXII-XXXV (cont.)
18 - Don Quixote, Part II: Chapters XXII-XXXV (cont.)
The fact that the second part of the Quixote is the first political novel is manifested in several ways. The second part... Read more
10 Apr 2011
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59mins
Ranked #6
07 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XXI-XXVI (cont.)
07 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XXI-XXVI (cont.)
Professor González Echevarría resumes his commentary on the galley slaves episode by talking about Ginés' cross-eyedness... Read more
10 Apr 2011
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1hr
Ranked #7
08 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XXVII-XXXV
08 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XXVII-XXXV
In this part of the Quixote, Cervantes makes a boast of narrative mastery by combining the sequential structure of the c... Read more
10 Apr 2011
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1hr 1min
Ranked #8
14 - Don Quixote, Part II: Front Matter and Chapters I-XI (cont.)
14 - Don Quixote, Part II: Front Matter and Chapters I-XI (cont.)
Commentary of the key concepts of Spanish Baroque, desengaño, introduces González Echevarría's suggestion that the plot ... Read more
10 Apr 2011
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1hr 3mins
Ranked #9
13 - Don Quixote, Part II: Front Matter and Chapters I-XI
13 - Don Quixote, Part II: Front Matter and Chapters I-XI
The modern novel that develops from the Quixote is essentially a political novel and an urban genre dealing with cities.... Read more
10 Apr 2011
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57mins
Ranked #10
11 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XXXVI-LII (cont.)
11 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XXXVI-LII (cont.)
The lecture focuses on the ending of the first part of the Quixote, which for the seventeenth-century reader was, simply... Read more
10 Apr 2011
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57mins