"Don Quixote: Interdisciplinary Connections," edited by Matthew D. Warshawsky and James A. Parr

Don Quixote: Interdisciplinary Connections, edited by Matthew D. Warshawsky and James A. Parr This volume grew out of “Don Quixote: Study of a Modern Hero,” a symposium held in 2012 at the University of Portland that gathered scholars from across the United States as well as Spain for invigorating conversation on the myriad ways of reading Cervantes’s masterpiece in the twenty-first century. In ways both complementary and distinct, each chapter of the book demonstrates eloquently the ability of Don Quixote to prompt original, text-based readings connected to disciplines beyond what in the past might have been considered strictly Hispanic studies. This interdisciplinarity is even more noteworthy in light of the fact that all but one contributor to the work are Hispanists specializing to various degrees in the Spanish Golden Age. Informed by a desire to interpret the novel in ways not necessarily considered in previous studies, the essays show how Don Quixote as novel and character inspi