SPAN 300 - Lecture 15 - Don Quixote, Part II: Chapters XII-XXI
González Echevarría starts by reviewing the Spanish baroque concept of desengaño. He proposes that the plot of theQuixote and some of the stories in part two unfold from deceit (engaño) to disillusionment (desengaño). He then turns his attention to Auerbach and Spitzer’s essays included in the Casebook (“Enchanted Dulcinea” and “Linguistic Perspectivism” respectively) that try to describe what González Echevarría calls the “Cervantean,” the particularities that define Cervantes’ mind and style.