My three chosen websites:

 

 

1 Under the Influence of Cervantes: Tapiello’s Al morir Don Quijote

 

Article by the Dr.Isidoro Arén Janeiro. I decided to start my paper from this article, with lots of topics and I decided to write about “During and After the Death of Don Quixote”. Here it is very well explained what happens when Don Quixote die, what happened to all the characters. It deals also with the last scene Don Quixote Part 2, when Don Quixote is on his bed prepared to die.

 

http://letrashispanas.unlv.edu/vol2iss2/Cervantes.pdf

 

2. The Three Deaths of Don Quixote: Comments in Favor of the Romantic Critical Approach

 

Article by A.G.Loré. It is a very interesting article that explains what the three deaths of Don Quixote are for the writer. The first one, The would-be knight-errant, Don Quixote de la Mancha, fades away. The second one, Don Quixote confesses he was play acting, and the third one, Don Quixote recovers his senses, rejects books of chivalry, and dies among his friends.

 

http://www.h-net.org/~cervantes/csa/articf89/lo_re.htm or http://users.ipfw.edu/JEHLE/CERVANTE/csa/articf89/lo_re.htm

 

 

3. The democracy of Don Quixote

 

Article by Jonathan Rée. I have found that interesting article about the Democracy of Don Quixote, the third website for my project; it is a very interesting site. That article speaks about a lot of topics, including the death of Don Quixote, and the conclusion of the article is that Don Quixote is a 21st-century novel.

 

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=9609

 

The list of all the articles:

 

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/list.php?subject=58

 

You have to register and pay 16 euros, but I think that is not an expense, it is an investment, since they are lots of interesting articles.

They are another article about Don Quixote.

I like lots of articles in this page, but I don´t like the one by Julian Evans: A rational Quixote because it speaks too much about politics and I don’t want to base my project on this.

 

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=6892

 

In my opinion the best articles are:

The Library of Google also written by Jonathan Rée,

 

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=8215

 

The Rebirth of a Nation by Mary Fitzerald speaking about A Mercy(1960) written by Toni Morrison,

 

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10482

 

Return of the social novel: James and Huxley

http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=6812

 

or and even one Javier Marías: the voice of Spain by Bella Thomas

 

http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=3700

 

and one about García Marquez by Charles Lane

 

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=4447

 

 

 

My research

 

10-29-2009

At first I visited lots of webs that only want to sell me books, but in googlebooks I found some interesting ones:

 

1. The World of Cervantes and Don Quixote

 

 It is very good to read a biography of Cervantes, since it appears chronologically and well explained. Then appears an Introduction, some notes about the translator, a preface and the book, in what for me is a good translation. It seems me good but it was not what I was looking for.

 

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=3A0SF9sk3EIC&dq=Don+Quijote+cervantes&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=kT38MHPZDx&sig=VNRMcHwwzkRg-Znb-PtLbtwsoVA&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPR9,M1

 

2. The Cambridge Companion to English Literature

It was edited by Anthony J.Cascardi. There are some articles, as you can see in the index on page 6, but here you can see only the introduction and the historical and social context. There are lots of interesting authors to search and they give me a first idea to search deeper into a theme of the novel.

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=kGyFpDuG_loC&dq=cervantes&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=TrObV3j1zs&sig=B9os-6ez8oZHJpsAUdoVaeDEv4A&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result#PPR8,M1

 

 

 

3. Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet

 

It is an article found in Cervantes [Publicaciones periódicas] : Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America. Volume XI, Number 2, Fall 19.  It was written by Emilie L. Bergmann in the University of California, Berkeley. It is titled. I don´t like that article, I read it for the title but I found it short and very superficial.

 

http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/13538332103242052754491/p0000009.htm

 

4. Cervantes, Lope and Avellaneda

 

Article by Daniel Eisenberg, it spokes about the identity of  Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda, author of the false second part of Don Quixote. I like the format and I decided to look in different articles searching for something interesting

 

http://users.ipfw.edu/JEHLE/deisenbe/cervantes/lope.pdf

 

5. Cervantes' Last Romance: Deflating the Myth of Female Sacrifice

 

Article titled by Diana de Armas Wilson of the Department of English in the University of Denver. It is long enough but I don’t like so much the topic, and overall I don’t know how to link this website with other similar ones. It speaks also about Persiles- as the introduction in number two,   The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, where it was an article by Diana de Armas Wilson - but at first I found nothing interesting in comparing that two works. From my point of view is a good site to start the work, it was my first idea but I wait for next day to find some more links.

 

http://www.h-net.org/~cervantes/csa/articf83/wilson.htm

 

6. http://www.h-net.org/~cervantes/csa/articf89/lo_re.htm

 

Finally I found the article to start my work, as it is explained above, but I was not sure if I had to start from this page to follow my project.

 

10-31-2009

7. Authors and readers in the 1605 Quixote (1)

 

It was published by the Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America by Shannon M. Polchow. It speaks about the first chapter, Las dedicatorias de Miguel de Cervantes a sus mecenas. Autor y lectores históricos, but it speaks too much about politics and about things that are not interesting for me. So, I decided not to subscribe to this page and not to finish reading the article, even it has a free membership.

 

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9795282_ITM

 

 

 

8. Essays in Memory of E.C.Riley On the Quartcentenary of D.Quixote

 

It´s another book, titled edited by Jeremy Robbins and Edwin Williamson, there are some articles in English and Spanish, another time they are good but I didn´t find the perfect topic for my project.

 

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=etYPnMpZtOQC&dq=cervantes&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=tirFPOmTBB&sig=3grt-pwL_rvkswXMFsgtNZjCyn0&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPP1,M1

 

 

 

9. Cervantes in the German-speaking countries of the twentieth century

 

Article by Gabriele Eckhart in the Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America.  I like that page, with lots of links about Cervantes, and the best is that you can have a 7 days trial of register without paying anything, you only have to cancel your account if you don’t like the page and, if not, they charge you $29.95 per month or $199.95 per year. I read the articles but another time I found nothing interesting to start my project. Of course, I am not registered on that page.

 

http://www.online-literature.com/article/cervantes/1171/

 

10. http://letrashispanas.unlv.edu/vol2iss2/Cervantes.pdf

 

Finally I found the article to start my work, it is explained above.

 

11-02-2009

 

11. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/cervante.htm

 

Very good biography and explanation of the works by Cervantes, but it did not speak so much about Quixote, and of course, nothing about the death of Don Quixote.

 

12. The Death of Don Quixote. What Happens When Irony Meets Lucidity

 

It is a very good article, by Timoty Sexton, but from my point of view is very short, but in the last paragraph, the quotation “…Don Quixote dies in spirit the moment he renounces chivalry and dies in flesh not long after. In a way, his death is caused by sudden lucidity and self-awareness of his delusions. This is the deepest and most heartbreaking irony of the story because although we are always aware-sometimes two or three times removed-that he is a figment of the imagination,…” give me ideas to follow searching on the net. Normally the articles on that website are not so short, but that one is very short.

 

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/113888/the_death_of_don_quixote.html?page=2&cat=38

 

 

 

Speaking about the whole website, they are lots of interesting articles but nothing else about the death of Don Quixote, and the best is that all of them are for free. When you enter on the page you can read related articles, on the left side when it puts “You may also like…”

I recommend you The History of the Novel by Jim Jonson, which speaks about Quixote as the most noted work of 16th and 17th Centuries.

 

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/229105/the_history_of_the_novel.html?cat=38

 

13. Cervantes-related World Wide Web Links

 

This website has lots of interesting links, including translations of the two parts of the book by Bartleby, but there are two problems here for me. I didn’t found anything interesting about the death of Don Quixote and when it puts Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: Enlaces de interés, it carries you to the Biblioteca de las Culturas Hispánicas, as other links of this,

 

http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib_autor/Cervantes/enlaces/enlaces.shtml

 

but then puts “ATENCIÓN: La página solicitada no existe” and you cannot acces to that page.

 

http://www.h-net.org/~cervantes/cervlink.html

 

14. http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/list.php?subject=58

 

I found my third website, as you can see above.

 

11-09-2008

 

Once my paper was thought I looked for a good and clear translated version of Don Quixote and its topics to create more links in my pages. I found that ones:

 

15. http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/quixote2/section21.html

 

A very good summary and analysis of all the chapters of Don Quixote Part 2. There are also important quotes for my work in that site. There are Essays on Don Quixote Book II:

 

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/quixote2/essays.html

 

Here there are all the books that you can see of that page:

 

 http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/.

 

 

 

 

 

16. Themes, motifs and symbols.

 

If you watch the left side you have Characters review, plot overview but the most interesting is a summary of all the chapters of Don Quixote Part 1.

 

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/donquixote/themes.html

 

 

17. http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Don_Quixote/

 

It seems a good website because it speaks about the book, its importance (very interesting), films, with lots of links to search about topics as novel, the French Revolution or the 19th Century or to search about topics as chivalric romance, but I don´t like it because for me it is very similar to wikipedia

 

18. The book in Spanish.

 

http://www.elquijote.com/online.php

 

All the list of the chapters in Spanish

 

http://www.cyberspain.com/year/quijote.htm

 

19.The First part of the Book, chapter by chapter

 

http://www.bartleby.com/14/

 

The two parts of the book, chapter by chapter

 

http://www.online-literature.com/cervantes/don_quixote/