Introduction: Spanish classics
pt. I. Don Quixote and narrative tradition. ch. 1. On translation, with an overture to interpretation
ch. 2. Formal features and narrative technique
ch. 3. Framing, orality, origins
ch. 4. Don Quixote and Le Roman bourgeois: comparative anatomy
pt. II. Don Juan and classical Spanish drama. ch. 5. Don Quixote and Don Juan: the body in context
ch. 6. El burlador de Sevilla: authorship and authenticity
ch. 7. Don Juan and his kind: generic irony
ch. 8. Two characters from Seville: the canon and the culture wars
pt. III. Three periods, three classics. ch. 9. The libro de buen amor: a design for desire
ch. 10. La Celestina: ut pictura poesis
ch. 11. Lazarillo de Tormes: rhetoric and referentiality, fact and fiction
ch. 12. Periodization prior to 1700: a modest proposal.
