Introduction: why read the Quixote?
Chivalric romances and picaresque novels: antecedents of the Quixote
Don Quixote and Sancho on the road: books and windmills
Literature and life: the Quixote and Las Meninas
Ugliness and improvisation: Juan Palomeque's Inn
Modern authors: Cervantes and Ginés de Pasamonte
Love and the law: interrupted stories
Memory and narrative: stories within stories
Love stories resolved: fictions and metafictions
Fugitives from justice caught: restitutions as closure at The inn
The senses of endings: finishing the Quixote, Part I
On to Part II: the real and the bogus Quixote
Renaissance (1605) and Baroque (1615) Quixotes
Deceiving and undeceiving: Baroque Desengao
Don Quixote's doubles
Present varieties of classical myths: Ovid, Cervantes, and Velasquez
Caves and puppet shows: internal and external representations
Don Quixote and Sancho in the hands of frivolous aristocrats
Bearded ladies and flying horses: the duke's house of tricks
King for a day: Sancho's Barataria
Borders and ends: moriscos and bandits
Dancing and defeat in Barcelona: Don Quixote heads home
The meaning of the end: Don Quixote's death
Cervantes' death and legacy.
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Cervantes' Don Quixote by Roberto González Echevarría. ISBN 9780300198645. Published by Yale University Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
