Table of Contents
Chronology; Preface; Part I. Don Quixote's Premises, Structure Themes, and Basic Burlesque Methods: 1. Critical approaches; background; Cervantes's motives; 2. The basic burlesque formula; 3. The narrator's persona; 4. Empathetic parody; comic and satiric modes; 5. Form of Part I; its episodes; 6. Common nature; 7. Form of Part II; its episodes; Part II. The Personalities of Quixote and Sancho:1. Development through conversation; 2. Quixote's burlesque character; 3. The Sanchification of Panza; 4. Paradoxes of Part II; Quixote's disillusionment; 5. Quixote and Dulcinea; Part III. Don Quixote as Landmark; Guide to further reading.