Don Quijote: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 2

by Miguel de Cervantes, Diana de Armas Wilson

Overview

“Diana de Armas Wilson’s introductory study captures the true essence of why Cervantes’s novel has become a valuable piece of our shared cultural heritage. Humour, satire, and the religious and political conflicts that plagued the era all form part of Cervantes’s great vision, and Wilson’s study provides thorough analysis of why we still want to read the adventures of his would-be knight errant and his loyal squire over four centuries later.” —AARON KAHN, University of Sussex

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• Burton Raffel’s masterful translation (“Indeed, Raffel seems to have created a Cervantine English” — Javier Herrero, University of Virginia), lightly revised by Diana de Armas Wilson, and including the translator’s note.
• A revised and expanded introduction as well as revised and expanded explanatory footnotes by Diana de Armas Wilson.
• A rich selection of contextual materials, including related writings by Cervantes and his contemporaries as well as a modern account of Don Quijote’s influence over five centuries.
• Fifteen critical essays—seven of them new to the Second Edition—thematically organized to maximize classroom discussion. The new essays are by Ilan Stavans, Anne J. Cruz, Paul Michael Johnson, Pablo Garci´a-Pin~ar, Anthony J. Cascardi, Barbara Fuchs, and Andre´s Lema-Hincapie´.
• A chronology and a selected bibliography.
  

 

About the Series
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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393617474
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	05/01/2020
Series:	Norton Critical Editions Series
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	864
Sales rank:	633,910
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Diana de Armas Wilson is Professor Emerita of English and Renaissnace Studies at the University of Denver. She is the author of Allegories of Love: Cervantes’s Persiles and Sigismunda; co-editor of Quixotic Desire: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Cervantes; and author of Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction vii

Translator's Note xix

The Text of Don Quijote 1

Map: Spain at the End of the Sixteenth Century 3

Map: Cervantes's Andalucía 4

Don Quijote 5

Backgrounds and Contexts 719

Cervantes in his Own Voice 721

[Fear of Publishing] (from Prologue to La Galatea) 721

[Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man] (Prologue to Exemplary Novels) 722

[Cervantes's Self-Critique] (from Voyage of Parnassus) 723

[Cervantes's Last Words] (from Prologue to The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda) 724

Sources and Influences 727

From Amadís of Gaul (The Penance on Poor Cliff) Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo 727

From Orlando Furioso (Canto 23) Ludovico Ariosto 731

Patricia Finch and John J, Allen Don Quijote across the Centuries 734

Criticism 743

General Essays on Don Quijote 745

Foreword Carlos Fuentes 745

Who Was Dulcinea? Javier Herrero 747

Shakespeare's Quixote Ilan Stavans 750

Essays on Selected Episodes of Don Quijote 755

[Cervantes's Revolutionary Prologue] Elias L. Rivers 755

[Sex and the Chain Gang] Robert ter Horst 757

Redressing Dorotea Anne J. Cruz 762

[Anselmo's Eating Disorder] Nicolás Wey-Gómez 775

[Cervantes's Veiled Woman] María Antonia Górces 782

Don Quijote in the Oxcart: Shame and Shadows of the Inquisition Paul Michael Johnson 791

The Weight of Authority: Sancho's Fat Body in Barataria Pablo García-Piñar 797

Imagining the Nation: Ricote and the Moriscos Anthony J. Cascardi 805

Fighting Words in Don Quijote Barbara Fuchs 814

The Death of Don Quijote Andrés Lema-Hincapié 819

Cervantine Criticism since 2000 and into the Future Bruce R. Burningham 823

Miguel de Cervantes: A Chronology 839

Selected Bibliography 841