Modern scholar

Title from disc

Cervantes and the age of chivalry -- The novel: structure and motifs -- An unlikely couple: Don Quixote and Sancho -- Dulcinea: the platonic lover -- The baroque style: the eye looks at itself -- The limits of humor -- The idology of Quixotism -- Don Quixote's successors

Stavans explores Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha's impact within Renaissance Spain and discusses Cervante's career as a soldier, tax collector, and failed playwright. He also focuses on the baroque style and the way Spain has built its national identity around Don Quixote

Recording originally produced by Crescite Group, LLC, p2014

"8 lectures"--Container

Unabridged

Lecture given by Ilan Stavans, Amherst College