SPA 402 CERVANTES DON QUIXOTE

A close reading of Don Quixote de la Mancha in relation to its historical and artistic contexts, as well as discussions of different film adaptations of Cervantes's masterpiece. Emphasis on gender, race, and ethnicity, as well as concepts such as freedom, reality/imagination, and sanity/madness. Both the literary text and the films will be approached from diverse theoretical frameworks that include but are not limited to literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies and film studies.