§Published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon.

§A founding work of Western literature, it is often labeled "the first modern novel and is sometimes considered the best literary work ever written.

§As the translator and literary scholar Ilan Stavans tells us in his new book, Quixote: The Novel and the World (W.W. Norton, 2015), only the Bible has been translated into English more often.

§There are seven ballets based on it, an asteroid named after it, and at least one video game inspired by it.

§Alonso Quixano: a noble (hidalgo) from La Mancha named, who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and decides to become a knight-errant (caballero andante) to revive chivalry and serve his nation, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha.§Don Quixote, in the first part of the book, does not see the world

for what it is and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story.

§Sancho Panza: a simple farmer, his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical monologues on knighthood, already considered old-fashioned at the time.

§Metafiction is a form of literature that continually reminds the reader to be aware that they are reading or viewing a fictional work. §self-conscious about language, literary form, and storytelling, and directly or indirectly draw attention to their status as artifacts.

§frequently used as a form of parody or a tool to explore the relationship between literature and reality, life, and art.§Film Ex: in “The Office” when they talk to the camera…

§ In the course of their travels, the protagonists meet innkeepers, prostitutes, goat-herders, soldiers, priests, escaped convicts and scorned lovers.

§ They sometimes tell tales that incorporate events from the real world, like the conquest of the Kingdom of Maynila or battles in the Eighty Years' War.

§ It was common practice in that era for fictional works to make some pretense of being factual, such as the common opening line of fairy tales "Once upon a time in a land far away...".

§AUTHORIAL CHOICE: Cervantes wrote that the first chapters were taken from "the archives of La Mancha", and the rest were translated from an Arabic text by the Moorish author Cide HameteBenengeli. § EFFECT: gives a greater credibility to the text, implying that Don Quixote is a

real character and that the events related truly occurred several decades prior to the recording of this account (they didn’t)

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§ Irony§ Verbal/Sarcasm§ Dramatic§ Situational

§Hyperbole/Dimunitization §Parody§ Caricature

§Antithesis§Metafiction§Utopianism/Dystopianism§Obscenity/Taboo Language

§Others ...

§ Pick a partner to write your responses with, or work alone ifthat’s your best way to end the week happily.

§ Answer the question that is theheader for this slide in a thesis-driven paragraph that analyzes a few great examples from Don Quixote.

§ Then, answer the broader, satirical question to the right in another thesis-driven paragraph.

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