Description
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- Burton Raffel's masterful translation ("Indeed, Raffel seems to have created a Cervantine English" - Javier Herrero, University of Virginia), lightly revised by Diana de Armas Wilson and including the translator's note.
- A revised and expanded introduction as well as revised and expanded explanatory footnotes by Diana de Armas Wilson.
- A rich selection of contextual materials, including related writings by Cervantes and his contemporaries as well as a modern account of Don Quijote's influence over five centuries.
- Fifteen critical essays-seven of them new to the Second Edition-thematically organised to maximise classroom discussion. The new essays are by Ilan Stavans, Anne J. Cruz, Paul Michael Johnson, Pablo Garcia-Pin~ar, Anthony J. Cascardi, Barbara Fuchs and Andres Lema-Hincapie.
- A chronology and a selected bibliography.
About the Author
Diana de Armas Wilson is Professor Emerita of English and Renaissnace Studies at the University of Denver. She is the author of Allegories of Love: Cervantes's Persiles and Sigismunda; co-editor of Quixotic Desire: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Cervantes; and author of Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World.
Book Information
ISBN 9780393617474
Author Miguel de Cervantes
Format Paperback
Page Count 864
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 639g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 142mm * 25mm
