Approaches to Teaching Cervantes' Don Quixote
Editor(s): Richard Bjornson
Pages: x & 188 pp.
Published: 1984
ISBN: 9780873524803 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780873524797 (hardcover)
"The plan of Richard Bjornson's interesting and well-produced compilation is, precisely, to improve the craft of teaching Don Quixote.... The range of approaches is impressive, running from old-style Romantic 'soft' or tragic readings (as the jargon has it) to purely comic or 'hard' ones."
Notes and Queries
"All prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote," remarked Lionel Trilling about the novel that influenced writers ranging from Fielding to Faulkner. Approaches to Teaching Cervantes' Don Quixote brings together resources and strategies for teaching the novel to undergraduates. Although beginning instructors and nonspecialists might be expected to profit most from this collection, even seasoned Cervantistas will discover much of interest to them and their students.
Like other books in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, this one is divided into two parts. The first part, "Materials," evaluates texts, translations, reference works, secondary sources, and aids to teaching. In the second part, "Approaches," fifteen essays reflect on ways to make Don Quixote come alive for students, explain the interpretive underpinnings behind selected strategies for teaching the novel, examine the work's oral and written language traditions, discuss the protagonist as the archetypal baroque man, and describe successful ways of presenting Don Quixote to nonmajors.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Cervantes' Don Quixote
PART 1: MATERIALS
Richard Bjornson
- Editions
- Spanish Texts
- English Translations
- Anthologies
Required and Recommended Further Reading for Students
- The Instructor's Library
- Reference Works
- Background Studies
- Critical and Scholarly Approaches
Aids to Teaching
PART 2: APPROACHES
Introduction
General Considerations
Coping with Don Quixote
John J. Allen
Coughing in Ink and Literary Coffins
Ruth El Saffar
Three Approaches to Don Quixote
Howard Mancing
Critical Approaches and the Teaching of Don Quixote
Teaching Don Quixote as a Funny Book
Daniel Eisenberg
Metafiction in Don Quixote: What Is the Author Up To?
Ulrich Wicks
Getting Started: Don Quixote and the Reader's Response
Peter Dunn
Don Quixote and the Act of Reading: A Multiperspectivist Approach
Edward H. Friedman
An Archetypal Approach to Don Quixote
Donald W. Bleznick
Psychoanalysis and Don Quixote
Carroll B. Johnson
Background Materials and the Teaching of Don Quixote
Voices and Texts in Don Quixote
Elias L. Rivers
Don Quixote: Archetypal Baroque Man
Norma L. Hutman
Background Material on Don Quixote
Juan Bautista Avalle-Arce
Teaching Nonmajors
"Quixotiz y Pancino": Don Quixote at an Ag and Tech
Morgan Desmond
Teaching Don Quixote as the Story of One's Own Life
James Y. Dayananda
Guiding Student Encounters with the Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
Lewis J. Hutton
Works Cited
Index
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