Lesson 17: Don Quijote’s discourse on arms and letters

Lesson 17 - Module 3: In this video, professor Eric C. Graf begins the interpretation of chapter 38 of Miguel de Cervantes’s "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 15 through 28 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

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Indeed, the debate between letters and arms continues as do the accusations made by arms that letters always get ahead with or without the backing of law