Comparative Literature/ Spanish 250a:  Quixotic Narratives

 

Israel Burshatin                                            Office phone 610-896-1065

Office:  Hall 205                                            E-mail:  iburshat@haverford.edu

Fall semester, 2004

 

Texts

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Trans. John Rutherford; introd. by Roberto Gonz‡lez Echevarr’a (Penguin Books, 2001).

________, ÒThe Glass Graduate/ ÒEl licenciado vidriera,Ó  trans. R. M. Price.  Exemplary Novels II (Warminster, England: Aris & Phillips, 1992; E-reserve): 59-97.

Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote," Labyrinths.

Paris is Burning (film directed by Amy Livingston, 1992).

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (Vintage, 1997).

Lolita (film directed by Stanley Kubrick, MGM, 1961).

SullivanÕs Travels (film directed by Preston Sturges, Paramount Pictures, 1941)

Manuel Puig, Heartbreak Tango

Lost in La Mancha. (film directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe.  Perf. Terry Gilliam and Johnny Depp.  IFC, 2002).

 

Materials on Reserve, Magill Library

Some of these will be assigned and discussed in class, while others will be available for class presentations and individual projects.

 

Pamela Bacarisse, ÒChivalry and ÔCampÕ Sensibility in Don Quijote, with Some Thoughts on the Novels of Manuel Puig,Ó Forum for Modern Language Studies 26.2 (1990): 127-43.

David Bennet, "Parody, Postmodernism, and the Politics of Reading," Critical Quarterly 27 (1985): 27-43.

David Bergman, "Strategic Camp:  The Art of Gay Rhetoric,"in his ed., Camp Grounds:  Style and Homosexuality (Amherst, Mass., 1993):  92-109.

Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote," in Ficciones, (Obras completas, vol. 5).

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, ed. Luis A. Murillo, 3 vols.

Ruth El Saffar, ed., Critical Essays on Cervantes (Boston, 1986).

Michel Foucault, ÒLas Meninas,Ó The Order of Things. 3-51.

Linda Hutcheon, A Theory of Parody:  The Teachings of Twentieth Century Art Forms (London, 1985).

Moe Meyer, "Introduction:  Reclaiming the Discourse of Camp," in his ed. The Politics and Poetics of Camp (London 1994): 1-22.

Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Don Quixote (New York, 1983)

Paris is Burning (video copy--directed by Amy Livingston, 1992).

Richard L. Predmore, Cervantes (New York, 1973).

Joan Ramon Resina, ÒCervantes's Confidence Games and the Refashioning of TotalityÓ                MLN 111.2 (1996) 218-54 [available elctronically].

Edgardo Rodr’guez Juli‡, "El final del Quijote," Julio Ortega, ed. La cervantiada  (Mexico, 1992):  185-214.

Paul Julian Smith, "'The Captive's Tale':  Race, Text, Gender," in Quixotic Desire:  Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Cervantes, ed. Ruth A. El Saffar and Diana de Armas Wilson :  227-37.

Susan Sontag, ÒNotes on ÔCampÕÓ [1961], Art Theory and Criticism: An Anthology of Formalist, Avant-Garde, Contextualist, and Post Modernist Thought, ed. Sally Everett, pp. 96-109.

 

Musical versions of DQ (at the Music Library)

Miguel de Falla, "Retablo de Maese Pedro"/ [Master PeterÕs Puppet Show] (1923)

Richard Strauss, "Don Quixote." Symphonic tone poem with cello solo (1898).

 

Internet Sources

Don Quixote de la Mancha, a digital exhibit of illustrations and translations, from the Peabody Library, Johns Hopkins University:             http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8003/quixote/index.html

 

Cervantes 2001, offers bibliographic sources (http://csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/) and contains The Works of Miguel de Cervantes, an on-going project that makes available the Spanish texts, in both modern and original spelling:             http://www.ipfw.indiana.edu/cm1/jehle/web/cervante.htm

August

31 Introduction

 

September

2  ÒThe Glass GraduateÓ

 

7  Don Quixote, Introduction vii-xxi; Translating DQ xxv-xxii; Prologue 11-24; Part 1, Ch. 1-8, pp. 25-70

 

9  DQ Pt. 1, Ch.9-19, pp. 73-153.

 

14  DQ Pt. 1, Ch. 20-27, pp. 153-233.

 

16  Bergman "Strategic Camp:  The Art of Gay Rhetoric"

    Meyer "Introduction:  Reclaiming the Discourse of Camp"

 

21  Paris is Burning

 

23  DQ Pt. 1, Ch. 28-34, pp. 234-329.

 

28  DQ Pt. 1, Ch.35-44, pp. 330-418.

 

30 DQ Pt. 1, Ch. 45-52, , pp. 418-479.

 

October

 

4  First paper (three or four pages)

 

5  DQ Pt.2, Prologue, Ch.1-9, pp. 483-542.

 

7  DQ Pt.2, Ch. 10-21, pp. pp. 543-630.

 

12 & 14  Fall vacation

 

19  DQ Pt.2, Ch. 22-32, pp. 630-713.

 

21  DQ Pt.2, Ch. 33-47, , pp. 713-804.

 

26  DQ Pt.2, Ch. 48-58, , pp. 804-883.

 

28  DQ Pt.2, Ch. 59-74, pp. 883-982.

 

November

 

2 Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote," Labyrinths 36-44

  "Partial Magic in the Quixote" 193-96

  "Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote" 242

  "Kafka and his Precursors" 199-201

 

4 SullivanÕs Travels

 

8 Second paper due

9  Listen to

   Miguel de Falla  Retablo de Maese Pedro / Master Peter's Puppet Show

  Richard Strauss, Don Quixote

 

11  No Class

 

16  Nabokov, Lolita

 

18 Lolita

 

23 Lolita

      articles by Michael Wood (Reserve)

      Nabokov, Lectures on Don Quixote, selections (Reserve)

 

25 Thanksgiving vacation

 

30 Stanley Kubrick, Lolita (MGM, 1961).

Catherine Kunce, "'Cruel and Crude': Nabokov Reading Cervantes (E-reserve)

Nabokov, Lectues on Don Quixote  51-74, 80-81, 110-12. (E-reserve)

 

December

2 Manuel Puig, Heartbreak Tango, to p. 75

 

7 Heartbreak Tango 76-144

 

9 Heartbreak Tango 145 to the end

 

Final paper due by 12 Noon, December 17, 2004