SPAN 49oo: Don Quijote 1
SPAN 4900 Don Quijote Spring 2016 Utah State University
T/Th 3:00-4:15 p.m. Old Main 326
Felipe Valencia [email protected] Office: Old Main 002A Office Hours: Th 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Pablo Picasso, Don Quijote (1955) BANNER COURSE DESCRIPTION Select topics of Spanish cultural production, such as literature, art, cinema, or music. Prerequisite/Restriction: At least two of the following: SPAN 3600, SPAN 3610, SPAN 3620, SPAN 3630, SPAN 3640, SPAN 3650, SPAN 3660; or permission of instructor. Repeatable for credit when topics change Semester(s).
EXTENDED COURSE DESCRIPTION What is it about Don Quixote’s tilting at windmills and acting as if life followed the rules of fiction that has captivated the imagination of so many writers and thinkers ever since it was written in Spain four hundred years ago? This course explores Cervantes’s Don Quijote (1605 and 1615) by paying special attention to its literary and historical context in early modern Spain, and the theoretical problems it has raised in literary theory. We will think about Cervantes’s innovations in narrative technique, the possibility of interpretation, and the nature of fiction and reality. Students will acquire tools of literary analysis and theory. In Spanish.
COURSE OBJECTIVES By the end of the semester, students in this course will have learned: • Thorough knowledge of the text and main interpretations of Cervantes’s Don Quijote. • Familiarity with the literature and history of Spain in the early modern period. • Strategies for close reading, literary analysis, critical thinking, and interpretation of cultural artifacts. SPAN 49oo: Don Quijote 2
• Improved oral, aural, writing and reading skills in Spanish.
REQUIRED FOR PURCHASE AT THE USUBOOKSTORE Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quijote. Ed. Tom Lathrop. Ill. Jack Davis. Newark, Del.: Juan de la Cuesta, 2013. All other required readings will be available through the library or Canvas.
COURSE WEBSITES Moodle Site:
COURSE COMPONENTS Components Percentage of the Grade 1. Class participation 25% 2. Discussion questions 25% 3. Presentation in class 20% 4. Final exam 30% 5. Meetings with the professor
1. Class participation: Students are expected to come prepared, having read all the assigned texts and completed the required homework, and ready and willing to discuss ideas in a collegiate atmosphere. This means that students will have a firm grasp on the material and actively talk— pose questions, offer and challenge interpretations, and formulate hypotheses—in the discussions facilitated by the professor. The grade for class participation will be the average of four separate grades, one for each month. 2. Discussion questions: The discussion questions will be short and very clear questions that reflect students’ own queries or thoughts on the reading assigned for the day, raising issues that s/he would like to have discussed in class. The questions will be uploaded to Canvas by 11:30 a.m. before the indicated session. The professor needs time before his classes and lunchtime to examine the questions and incorporate them to the lesson plan. Any question posted after 11:30 a.m. will not count, and the grade for that question shall be 0. Given the size of the class, students will be divided into three groups (A through C) at the beginning of the semester. For each indicated class, only one group is responsible for formulating questions. All students, however, must read the questions of the day and be prepared to address them before coming to class. The grade for discussion questions will be the average of the grades for each of the nine questions. 3. Presentation in class: On the indicated class, a group of 2 or 3 students will present on a passage or topic, determined by the professor. The students are free to choose the format: from a formal presentation to leading discussion. They will be expected to carefully research and read at least 3 or 4 pieces of criticism on the subject of the presentation. Without exception, they must send the instructor a full outline of what they intend to do 48 hours before class, including the bibliography they have consulted. SPAN 49oo: Don Quijote 3
4. Final exam: Students will have three hours to answer two questions from a choice of four. The exam will take place on the date assigned by the registrar. 5. Meetings with the professor: Students will hold at least one mandatory meeting with the professor during his office hours throughout the semester: on March 15, 17 or 24.
GRADING SCALE B+ = 87-89% C+ = 77-79% D+ = 67-69% A = 94-100% B = 84-86% C = 74-76% D = 64-66% A- = 90-93% B- = 80-83% C- = 70-73% F = 0-63%
GENERAL POLICIES AND CLASSROOM CONDUCT • Absences: Students may have three unexcused absences (no questions asked), but must turn in the assigned work no later than two days after class. Students are responsible for keeping track of their absences. Each unexcused absence after the first three detracts 0.5% from the final grade. Only three types of absences are excused: a) the student is celebrating a religious holiday and has notified the professor at least one day in advance; b) the student has a medical or family emergency, and has either gone to the campus health center or spoken to a dean; and c) the student is representing USU in a sporting event off-campus, and has shown proper documentation from the athletics department at the beginning of the semester. • Deadlines: Turning in assignments past the deadline without a valid excuse is inadmissible, and students should not expect the professor to accept the late work. Students should also be aware that the professor is not responsible for reminding them of missed deadlines. • Grading: The professor will provide rubrics detailing the expectations for each assignment and how they are evaluated and graded. • Classroom conduct: Students are expected to behave in a respectful and attentive manner toward their peers and the professor. Students should arrive to class on time, refrain from engaging in personal conversations, texting or checking of personal e-mail during class, and listen to the professor and their peers in silence and with full attention. • Phones: Unless needed due to a disability, students are not allowed to use phones (smart or otherwise) or recording devices in the classroom. If the student expects an emergency call, the professor must be notified at the beginning of class. • Laptops and tablets: Devices are only acceptable for note-taking, but students are strongly encouraged to take notes by hand; research shows that it favors absorption. The professor reserves himself the right to ban the use of tablets or tablets in the classroom. Using a device during class for purposes different from those of the course will detract from the participation grade.
USU HONOR PLEDGE Students must agree that they will not cheat, falsify, or plagiarize anybody’s work. Plagiarism includes “representing, by paraphrase or direct quotation, the published or unpublished work of another person as one’s own in any academic exercise or activity without full and clear acknowledgement. It also includes using materials prepared by another person or by an agency SPAN 49oo: Don Quijote 4
engaged in the sale of term papers or other academic materials” (Code of Policies and Procedures for Students, Article V, Section V-3.A). The penalties for plagiarism are severe. They include a verbal warning, written reprimand, re-writing the assignment, grade adjustment, and even failure of the course. Additionally, the University may impose probation, suspension, or expulsion (see Article VI, Section VI-1.A).
DISABILITIES The professor will accommodate students with disabilities so that their participation in the course is comparable to that of their peers. The USU Disability Resource Center website advises that “Students with ADA-documented physical, sensory, emotional or medical impairments may be eligible for reasonable accommodations. Veterans may also be eligible for services. All accommodations are coordinated through the Disability Resource Center (DRC) in room 101 of the University Inn, 435-797-2444 or toll-free at 800-259-2966. Please contact the DRC as early in the semester as possible. Alternate format materials (Braille, large print or digital) are available with advance notice.”
SPAN 49oo: Don Quijote 5
CALENDARIO
Fecha Lección o actividad Lecturas antes de clase Tarea antes de clase La posición social de DQ parte I, capítulo 1 (hasta Martes 12/1 don Quijote p. 26) DQ parte I, preliminares y cap. 1 Pregunta de discusión Jueves 14/1 [Discusión] B. Ife, “The historical and 1A social context” DQ 1.2-5 J. L. Austin, How to Do Pregunta de discusión Martes 19/1 Los moriscos, parte I Things with Words, caps. 1-2 1B y 8 DQ 1.6-7 E. M. Gerli, “The Pregunta de discusión Jueves 21/1 Los judeoconversos antecedents of the novel in 1C sixteenth-century Spain” DQ 1.8-10 B. W. Wardropper, “DQ: Pregunta de discusión Martes 26/1 [Discusión] Story or History?” 2A G. Haley, “The Narrator in DQ” (pp. 241-45) DQ 1.11-14 Pregunta de discusión Jueves 28/1 La ficción pastoril B. Fuchs, Romance, pp. 1-11 2B y 78-93 La mujer en la España Pregunta de discusión Martes 2/2 DQ 1.15-19 del Siglo de Oro 2C DQ 1.20-22 Pregunta de discusión Jueves 4/2 La ficción picaresca L. Spitzer, “Linguistic 3A Perspectivism” Pregunta de discusión Martes 9/2 La melancolía DQ 1.23-27 3B Pregunta de discusión Jueves 11/2 La ficción sentimental DQ 28-32 3C DQ 1.33-35 Pregunta de discusión Jueves 18/2 La novela R. Girard, Deceit, Desire and 4A the Novel (pp. 1-18 y 44-52) DQ 1.36-41 Pregunta de discusión Martes 23/2 La ficción morisca M. A. Garcés, “Zoraida’s 4B Veil”
SPAN 49oo: Don Quijote 6
Fecha Lección o actividad Lecturas antes de clase Tarea antes de clase Pregunta de discusión Jueves 25/2 La comedia DQ 1.42-46 4C DQ 1.47-fin de la parte I Pregunta de discusión Martes 1/3 [Discusión] E. C. Riley, Don Quixote, 5A pp. 62-72 Cervantes, “Entremés del La obra de Cervantes, retablo de las maravillas” Pregunta de discusión Jueves 3/3 parte I J. L Borges, “Pierre Menard, 5B autor del Quijote” DQ parte II, preliminares- El Quijote apócrifo de cap. 4 Pregunta de discusión Martes 15/3 Fernández de J. L. Borges, “Magias 5C Avellaneda parciales del Quixote” DQ 2.5-10 Pregunta de discusión Jueves 17/3 España en 1615 E. Auerbach, “The 6A Enchanted Dulcinea” La locura en el Pregunta de discusión Martes 22/3 DQ 2.11-15 Renacimiento 6B DQ 2.16-18 Presentación (grupo 1): J. Ortega y Gasset, Pregunta de discusión Jueves 24/3 El caballero del Verde Meditaciones del Quijote 6C Gabán (selección) Presentación (grupo 2): DQ 2.19-24 Pregunta de discusión Martes 29/3 La cueva de H. Percas de Ponseti, “The 7A Montesinos Cave of Montesinos” DQ 2.25-29 G. Haley, “The Narrator in Presentación (grupo 3): DQ” Pregunta de discusión Jueves 31/3 El retablo de Maese M. M. Gaylord, “Pulling 7B Pedro Strings with Master Peter’s Puppets” DQ 2.30-35 Presentación (grupo 4): M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Pregunta de discusión Martes 5/4 DQ y las teorías de la Imagination: Four Essays 7C novela (selección en M. McKeon, ed., Theory of the Novel) Presentación (grupo 5): DQ 2.36-41 Pregunta de discusión Jueves 7/4 La aventura de A. Close, A Companion to 8A Clavileño Don Quixote, pp. 205-26
SPAN 49oo: Don Quijote 7
Fecha Lección o actividad Lecturas antes de clase Tarea antes de clase Presentación (grupo 6): Pregunta de discusión Martes 12/4 Las bromas de los DQ 2.42-48 8B duques Presentación (grupo 7): Pregunta de discusión Jueves 14/4 DQ 2.49-53 Sancho Panza 8C Pregunta de discusión Martes 19/4 Los moriscos, parte II DQ 2.54-59 9A DQ 2.60-65 La España de los Pregunta de discusión Jueves 21/4 B. Fuchs, “Border muchos reinos 9B Crossings” Pregunta de discusión Martes 26/4 [Discusión] DQ 2.66-end 9C Cervantes, “Novela del La obra de Cervantes, Jueves 28/4 casamiento engañoso y parte II coloquio de los perros”
SPAN 49oo: Don Quijote 8
BIBLIOGRAPHY Book under course reserve at the Merrill-Cazier Library. E-book available through the USU library or online for free. CD available to stream through the Canvas course site.
Primary sources: Spanish editions Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quijote. Ed. Tom Lathrop. Ill. Jack Davis. Newark, Del.: Juan de la Cuesta, 2013. / —. Don Quijote de la Mancha. 2 vols. Ed. Francisco Rico et al. Madrid: Espasa/Círculo de Lectores, 2015. [Partially available online for free at
Primary sources: English translations —. Don Quixote: The Ormsby Translation, Revised Background and Sources, Criticism. Ed. Joseph R. Jones and Kenneth Douglas. New York: Norton, 1980. —. Don Quixote. Trans. Charles Jarvis [Jervas]. Fwd. E. C. Riley. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992. —. Don Quixote de la Mancha. Trans. Samuel Putnam. New York: Modern Library, 1998. —. Don Quixote. Trans. John Rutherford. Intro. Roberto González Echevarría. London: Penguin, 2003. —. Don Quixote. Trans. Edith Grossman. New York: Harper Collins, 2005. —. Don Quixote. Trans. Tom Lathrop. New York: Signet, 2011.
Secondary sources: Life of Cervantes Canavaggio, Jean. Cervantes. Trans. Joseph R. Jones. New York: Norton, 1990.
Secondary sources: Companions and guides Close, Anthony. A Companion to Don Quixote. Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2008. Gómez Canseco, Luis. El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes. Madrid: Síntesis, 2005. Johnson, Carroll B.. Don Quixote: The Quest for Modern Fiction. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland, 2000. Mancing, Howard. Cervantes’ Don Quixote: A Reference Guide. Westport: Greenwood, 2006. Murillo, L. A. A Critical Introduction to Don Quijote. New York: Lang, 1988. Parr, James A., and Lisa Vollendorf, eds. Approaches to Teaching Cervantes’s Don Quixote. 2nd ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2015- Riley, Edward C. Don Quixote. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1986. Riquer, Martín de. Para leer a Cervantes. Barcelona: El Acantilado, 2003.
Secondary sources: Collections of essays Avalle-Arce, Juan Bautista, and Edward C. Riley, eds. Suma cervantina. London: Tamesis, 1973. / Cascardi, Anthony J., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. SPAN 49oo: Don Quijote 9
/ González Echevarría, Roberto, ed. Cervantes’ Don Quixote: A Casebook. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005. Haley, George, ed. El Quijote de Cervantes. Madrid: Taurus, 1980. Jones, Joseph R., and Kenneth Douglas, eds. Don Quixote. By Cervantes. New York: Norton, 1980. Wilson, Diana de Armas, ed. Don Quijote. By Cervantes. Trans. Burton Raffel. New York: Norton, 1999.
Secondary sources: Reference works Alvar, Carlos, ed. Gran enciclopedia cervantina. 8 vols. Madrid: Castalia, 2005-2011. Mancing, Howard. The Cervantes Encyclopedia. 2 vols. Westport: Greenwood, 2004.
Secondary sources: Classic essays Avalle-Arce, Juan Bautista. Nuevos deslindes cervantinos. Esplugues de Llobregat: Ariel, 1975. Castro, Américo. El pensamiento de Cervantes y otros estudios cervantinos. 1925, rev. 1974. Fwd. Julio Rodríguez-Puértolas. Madrid: Trotta, 2002. —. Cervantes y los casticismos españoles y otros estudios cervantinos. 1967. Fwd. Francisco Márquez Villanueva. Madrid: Trotta, 2002. Close, Anthony. The Romantic Approach to Don Quixote: A Critical History of the Romantic Tradition in ‘Quixote’ Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1978. —. Cervantes and the Comic Mind of His Age. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. Gaylord, Mary Malcolm. “Pulling Strings with Master Peter’s Puppets: Fiction and History in Don Quixote.” Cervantes 18.2 (1998): 117-47. Johnson, Carroll B. Cervantes and the Material World. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2000. Márquez Villanueva, Francisco. Fuentes literarias cervantinas. Madrid: Gredos, 1973. —. Personajes y temas del Quijote. 1975. Rev. ed. Barcelona: Bellaterra, 2011. —. Trabajos y días cervantinos. Alcalá de Henares: Centro de Estudios Cervantinos, 1995. —. Moros, moriscos y turcos en Cervantes: Ensayos críticos. Barcelona: Bellaterra, 2010. Menéndez Pidal, Ramón. “Un aspecto de la elaboración del Quijote.” 1924. De Cervantes y Lope de Vega. Buenos Aires: Espasa-Calpe, 1940. 9-60.
Secondary sources: Don Quixote and the theory of the novel Bandera, Cesáreo. “Monda y desnuda”: La humilde historia de don Quijote: Reflexiones sobre el origen de la novela moderna. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2005. Childers, William. Transnational Cervantes. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2006. Gilman, Stephen. The Novel According to Cervantes. Berkeley: U of California P, 1989. Martínez Bonati, Félix. Don Quixote and the Poetics of the Novel. Trans. Dian Fox. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1992. McKeon, Michael, ed. Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000. Quint, David. Cervantes’s Novel of Modern Times: A New Reading of Don Quijote. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2003. SPAN 49oo: Don Quijote 10
Riley, Edward C. Cervantes’s Theory of the Novel. Oxford: Clarendon, 1962. Schmidt, Rachel. Forms of Modernity: Don Quijote and Modern Theories of the Novel. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2011. Ter Horst, Robert. The Fortunes of the Novel: A Study in the Transposition of a Genre. New York: Lang, 2003. Wilson, Diana de Armas. Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001.
Secondary sources: Recent scholarship Byrne, Susan. Law and History in Cervantes’s Don Quixote. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2012. Cascardi, Anthony J. Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2012. Fuchs, Barbara. Passing for Spain: Cervantes and the Fictions of Identity. Urbana and Chicago: U of Illinois P, 2003. Gaylord, Mary Malcolm. “Don Quixote’s New World of Language.” Cervantes 27.1 (2007): 71-94. González Echevarría, Roberto. Love and the Law in Cervantes. New Haven: Yale UP, 2005. Shuger, Dale. Don Quixote in the Archives: Madness and Literature in Early Modern Spain. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2012.
Discography Moreno, José Miguel, cond. Música en el ‘Quijote’ y otras obras de Miguel de Cervantes. Orphénica Lyra. Glossa, 2005. CD. Savall, Jordi, cond. Miguel de Cervantes, ‘Don Quijote de la Mancha’: Romances y Músicas. Montserrat Figueras, Hespèrion XXI and La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Alia Vox, 2005. 2 CDs.
ONLINE RESOURCES ON CERVANTES AND DON QUIJOTE Online editions in Spanish Don Quijote de la Mancha, por Miguel de Cervantes. Ed. Francisco Rico. Centro Virtual Cervantes.
Library Research Guides Don Quixote de la Mancha: LibGuides at University of Southern California. University of Southern California.
Multimedia databases and collections of criticism Antología de la crítica del Quijote en el siglo XX. Ed. José Montero Reguera. Centro Virtual Cervantes.
Cervantes Project. Texas A&M University. http://cervantes.tamu.edu/V2/CPI/index.html Gastronomía del Quijote. Centro Virtual Cervantes. < http://cvc.cervantes.es/artes/gastronomia/ default.htm> Libros de caballerías. Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.
Illustrations Illustrated Quixote: Selections from Our Collections. Brown University Library Center for Digital Scholarship.
Academic journals on Cervantes Anales Cervantinos.
Open online courses “Span 300: Cervantes’ Don Quixote” with Roberto González Echevarría. Yale University.
BASIC TOOLS FOR SPANISH GOLDEN AGE STUDIES Dictionaries of Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Covarrubias, Sebastián de. Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española. Ed. Martín de Riquer. Barcelona: Horta, 1943. —. Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española. Ed. Ignacio Arellano and Rafael Zafra. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2006. —. Suplemento al Tesoro de la lengua española castellana. Ed. Georgina Dopico Black and Jacques Lezra. Madrid: Polifemo, 2001. Diccionario de autoridades. Real Academia Española.
Literature SPAN 49oo: Don Quijote 12
García López, Jorge, Eugenia Fosalba, and Gonzalo Pontón. La conquista del clasicismo: 1500-1598. Vol. 2 of Historia de la literatura española. Ed. José-Carlos Mainer. Barcelona: Crítica, 2013. Gies, David T., ed. The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. Ruiz Pérez, Pedro. El siglo del arte nuevo: 1598-1691. Vol. 3 of Historia de la literatura española. Ed. José-Carlos Mainer. Barcelona: Crítica, 2010.
History Amelang, James S. Parallel Histories: Muslims and Jews in Inquisitorial Spain. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2013. Casey, James. Early Modern Spain: A Social History. London: Routledge, 1999. Elliott, John H. Imperial Spain: 1469-1716. Rev. ed. London: Penguin, 2002. Feros, Antonio, and Juan Gelabert, eds. España en tiempos del Quijote. Madrid: Taurus, 2006. Kamen, Henry. Spain, 1469-1714: A Society of Conflict. 3rd ed. London: Pearson, 2005. —. Golden Age Spain. 2nd ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Ruiz, Teófilo F. Spanish Society, 1400-1600. New York: Longman, 2001.
Online tools Spanish Paleography Digital Teaching & Learning Tool. CUNY Dominican Studies Institute.
BASIC TOOLS FOR LITERARY STUDIES Anthologies of literary theory and reference guides Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997. Greene, Roland, Stephen Cushman, et al., eds. The Princeton Encylopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4th ed. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2012. Leitch, Vincent B., ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2010.
Introductions to literary theory Blackwell, Frieda H., and Paul E. Larson. Guía básica de la crítica literaria y el trabajo de investigación. Rev. Ángel Francisco Sánchez Escobar and Jesús Casado Rodrigo. Boston: Thomson Heinle, 2007. Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. 2nd ed. rev. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011. Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Ed. rev. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2008.
Anthologies of theory and criticism Leitch, Vincent B., ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2010. Rivkin, Julie, and Michael Ryan, eds. Literary Theory: An Anthology. 2nd ed. Malden: Blackwell, 2004.
SPAN 49oo: Don Quijote 13
Reference guides to literary theory and criticism The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism and Theory. Ed. Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Academic style MLA Formatting and Style Guide. Ed. Tony Russell, Allen Brizee, and Elizabeth Angeli. The Purdue OWL. Purdue University Writing Lab. < https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/>