4. Literature and Life: Th e Quixote and Las Meninas

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. A Note on the Texts xiii
6. 1. Introduction: Why Read the Quixote? 1
7. 2. Chivalric Romances and Picaresque Novels: Antecedents of the Quixote 15
8. 3. Don Quixote and Sancho on the Road: Books and Windmills 30
9. 4. Literature and Life: Th e Quixote and Las Meninas 49
10. 5. Ugliness and Improvisation: Juan Palomeque’s Inn 62
11. 6. Modern Authors: Cervantes and Ginés de Pasamonte 79
12. 7. Love and the Law: Interrupted Stories 96
13. 8. Memory and Narrative: Stories within Stories 110
14. 9. Love Stories Resolved: Fictions and Metafictions 125
15. 10. Fugitives from Justice Caught: Restitutions as Closure at the Inn 140
16. 11. The Senses of Endings: Finishing the Quixote, Part I 153
17. 12. On to Part II: The Real and the Bogus Quixote 167
18. 13. Renaissance (1605) and Baroque (1615) Quixotes 182
19. 14. Deceiving and Undeceiving: Baroque Desengaño 197
20. 15. Don Quixote’s Doubles 210
21. 16. Present Varieties of Classical Myths: Ovid, Cervantes, and Velázquez 226
22. 17. Caves and Puppet Shows: Internal and External Representations 240
23. 18. Don Quixote and Sancho in the Hands of Frivolous Aristocrats 255
24. 19. Bearded Ladies and Flying Horses: Th e Duke’s House of Tricks 268
25. 20. King for a Day: Sancho’s Barataria 283
26. 21. Borders and Ends: Moriscos and Bandits 296
27. 22. Dancing and Defeat in Barcelona: Don Quixote Heads Home 309
28. 23. The Meaning of the End: Don Quixote’s Death 322
29. 24. Cervantes’ Death and Legacy 337
30. Notes 353
31. Index 359