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Informationen zum Autor James A. Parr is distinguished professor of Hispanic studies at the University of California, Riverside. A founding member of the Cervantes Society of America and past president of the CSA and AATSP, he is the author of Don Quixote A Touchstone for Literary Criticism and Don Quixote, Don Juan, and Related Subjects . He has edited the original Don Juan play and coedited Don Quixote . Lisa Vollendorf is professor of Spanish and dean of the College of Humanities and the Arts at San José State University. She is the author of The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitional Spain (2005) and the editor of Recovering Spain's Feminist Tradition (2001); Literatura y feminismo en España (2006); with Daniella Kostroun, Women, Religion, and the Atlantic World (1600-1800) (2009); and, with Harold Braun, Theorising the Ibero-American Atlantic (2013). Klappentext > Part 1, “Materials,” contains information about editions of Don Quixote, a history and review of the English translations, and a survey of critical studies and Internet resources. In part 2, “Approaches,” essays cover such topics as the Moors of Spain in Cervantes’s time; using film and fine art to teach his novel; and how to incorporate psychoanalytic theory, satire, science and technology, gender, role-playing, and other topics and techniques in a range of twenty-first-century classroom settings. Zusammenfassung This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Cervantes’s Don Quixote highlights dramatic changes in pedagogy and scholarship in the last thirty years: today, criticsand teachers acknowledge that subject position, cultural identity, and political motivations afford multiple perspectives on the novel, and they examine both literary and sociohistorical contextualization with fresh eyes.
