Episode Synopsis "Lesson 2: Doña Rodríguez’s tale"

Lesson 2: In this video, professor Eric C. Graf begins the interpretation of chapter 48 of Miguel de Cervantes’s second part of "Don Quijote de la Mancha." "Discover Don Quijote de la Mancha" is a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) offered by Universidad Francisco Marroquín. The main goal of the course is to teach today’s multimedia generation and lovers of literature about the greatest novel of all time. In the first module professor Eric C. Graf explains chapters 24 through 47 of the second part of the novel. Eric Clifford Graf is a professor of literature at Universidad Francisco Marroquín. He has a PhD in Spanish language and literature from the University of Virginia (1997). He specializes in medieval and early modern Spain, the history of the novel, Renaissance studies, and literary, political, cultural, and economic theory. Credits New Media | UFM 2015 http://www.ufm.edu http://www.newmedia.ufm.edu http://donquijote.ufm.edu/en

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More episodes of the podcast UFM Don Quijote Part II - Chapters 48-74

• Lesson 42: “Alonso Quijano the Good”
• Lesson 41: Don Quijote turns melancholic and superstitious
• Lesson 40: The seventh inn
• Lesson 39: The final negotiation between Don Quijote and Sancho Panza
• Lesson 38: The cure for lovesickness is honest work
• Lesson 37: “Alive is Altisidora! Altisidora lives!”
• Lesson 36: Sancho, martyr again
• Lesson 35: Pigs
• Lesson 34: A pastoral parody
• Lesson 33: Arcadia again
• Lesson 32: Tosilos, mailman
• Lesson 31: Ricote’s speech on the Expulsion
• Lesson 30: The conclusion to the story of Ana Félix and Don Gregorio
• Lesson 29: Don Quijote’s final defeat
• Lesson 28: Ana Félix
• Lesson 27: More galley slaves
• Lesson 26: The printing house and “the men of the Inquisition”
• Lesson 25: Don Quijote and the enchanted head
• Lesson 24: “This is Don Quijote of La Mancha.”
• Lesson 23: Roque’s distributive justice
• Lesson 22: Claudia Jerónima
• Lesson 21: Roque Guinart
• Lesson 20: Another “locus amoenus”
• Lesson 19: The false Arcadia and the ferocious bulls
• Lesson 18: Liberty and five saints, that’s right, FIVE (5)
• Lesson 17: Altisidora’s complaint
• Lesson 16: Don Quijote and Sancho are escorted to the ducal palace
• Lesson 15: The battle between Don Quijote and Tosilos
• Lesson 14: Sancho and his ass fall into a cave
• Lesson 13: “Freedom of conscience”
• Lesson 12: Ricote
• Lesson 11: Sancho resigns
• Lesson 10: Teresa Panza’s second letter
• Lesson 9: Don Quijote proposes a duel
• Lesson 8: “The Constitutions of the Great Governor Sancho Panza”
• Lesson 7: Sancho solves a paradox
• Lesson 6: “We have ourselves a little governorship!”
• Lesson 5: Making the rounds at night
• Lesson 4: Sancho solves three cases
• Lesson 3: Doña Rodríguez asks Don Quijote for help
• Lesson 2: Doña Rodríguez’s tale
• Lesson 1: The encounter between Don Quijote and Doña Rodríguez