Approaches to Teaching Cervantes’s Don Quixote
Second Edition
- Editors: James A. Parr, Lisa Vollendorf
- Pages: x & 270 pp.
- Published: 2015
- ISBN: 9781603291873 (Hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781603291880 (Paperback)
“The new edition reflects an updating of the critical scholarship on Don Quixote and introduces new ideas based on advances in media and on the interests of the twenty-first-century student. The breadth of imaginative approaches is truly valuable.”
—William H. Clamurro, Emporia State University
This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Cervantes’s Don Quixote highlights dramatic changes in pedagogy and scholarship in the last thirty years: today, critics and teachers acknowledge that subject position, cultural identity, and political motivations afford multiple perspectives on the novel, and they examine both literary and sociohistorical contextualization with fresh eyes.
Part 1, “Materials,” contains information about editions of Don Quixote, a history and review of the English translations, and a survey of critical studies and Internet resources. In part 2, “Approaches,” essays cover such topics as the Moors of Spain in Cervantes’s time; using film and fine art to teach his novel; and how to incorporate psychoanalytic theory, satire, science and technology, gender, role-playing, and other topics and techniques in a range of twenty-first-century classroom settings.
David A. Boruchoff
Bruce R. Burningham
Joan F. Cammarata
David Castillo
William Childers
Frederick A. de Armas
Sidney Donnell
Salvador J. Fajardo
Edward H. Friedman
Barbara Fuchs
Carmen García de la Rasilla
Gregory Kaplan
Howard Mancing
Patricia W. Manning
Christian Michener
Rogelio Miñana
Barbara Mujica
Susan Paun de García
Cory Reed
Barbara Simerka
Matthew D. Stroud
Jonathan Thacker
Luis Verano
Christopher Weimer
William Worden
Preface (ix)
Introduction (1)
PART ONE: MATERIALS
The Instructor’s Library (17)
Reading Don Quixote in Spanish (17)
Reading Don Quixote in English Translation (18)
Reference Works (20)
Biographical Resources on Cervantes (21)
Critical Collections (22)
Critical Studies: Monographs on Literary and Artistic Traditions (23)
Critical Studies: Monographs on Sociocultural Contexts (26)
Don Quixote on Film (27)
Select Online Resources (29)
Editions Used in This Volume (31)
Don Quixote in English Translation (32)
PART TWO: APPROACHES
Historical and Literary Background
Don Quixote: A Sociohistorical Compass (51)
Cervantes and the Invention of the Polyphonic Novel: Teaching the Quixote of 1605 (58)
Scientific and Technological Imagery in Don Quixote (66)
Reading Gender in Don Quixote (71)
Spain and the Moors (78)
Narration, Readers, and Reading
Approaching Diegesis: Telling, Transmission, and Authority (84)
Reading the Missing Manuscript: Teaching Textual Materiality in Don Quixote (92)
Readers and Reading in Don Quixote (98)
Reading Don Quixote in the Americas (104)
Visual Approaches to Don Quixote
Windmills of the Mind: The Devilish Devices of Don Quixote, Part 1, Chapter 8 (112)
Teaching Don Quixote through Images (119)
Don Quixote and Postmodern Film (126)
Seeing Quixote: Teaching Don Quixote in the Twenty-First Century (133)
Theoretical Applications
Don Quixote: A Collision of Mind-Sets (138)
Applying Theory of Mind to Don Quixote (147)
Don Quixote in the American Imaginary (153)
Subjects, Objects, and Psychoanalysis: Lacanian Concepts as Pedagogical Approaches to Don Quixote (159)
All the World’s a Game: Mad about Playing (165)
Don Quixote and Political Satire: Cervantine Lessons from Sacha Baron Cohen and Stephen Colbert (171)
Classroom Contexts
Don Quixote and Its Range of Audiences (178)
Advanced Placement: A Foundational Introduction to Don Quixote (185)
Don Quixote as a Great Book (191)
Don Quixote in the Balance: Early Modern Studies and the Undergraduate Curriculum (197)
Using an Anthology to Teach Don Quixote (206)
Pedagogy of Inclusion for Don Quixote (212)
Helping Undergraduates Make Connections to Don Quixote (218)
Notes on Contributors (225)
Survey Participants (229)
Works Cited (231)
Index (257)
