SPA 316 Don Quixote and the Digital Age
Cervantes’s Don Quijote de la Mancha (1605-1615). We will explore questions of empire and domination, madness, authorship, self-invention, translation, and the ways in which reality imitates fiction. The course also examines how the book has influenced generations of writers, filmmakers, and storytellers. Course materials will include the traditional novel, a graphic novel, artwork and various television and film adaptations.