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Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (Penguin).

Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Amadis of Gaul, selections in Don Quixote, (Norton) pp. 848-71.

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

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

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (Vintage, 1997).

Manuel Puig, Heartbreak Tango

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

Pamela Bacarisse, "Chivalry and 'Camp' Sensibility in Don Quijote, with Some Thoughts on the Novels of Manuel Puig," 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, "Las Meninas," 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, "Cervantes's Confidence Games and the Refashioning of Totality" MLN 111.2 (1996) 218-54 [available elctronically].

Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá, "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, "Notes on 'Camp'" [1961], Art Theory and Criticism: An Anthology of Formalist, Avant-Garde, Contextualist, and Post Modernist Thought, ed. Sally Everett, pp. 96-109.

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

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

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

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