1. Karl-Ludwig Selig’s “Don Quixote and the Exploration of (Literary) Geography” looks at a number of the geographical sites in the novel. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 6.3 (Primavera 1982): 341–357.
2. Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1960), 118. Edward W. Soja offers a historical account of the concept of space in critical social theory. He also highlights Jameson’s debt to the work of Lefebvre, Berger, and Foucault.
3. See Soja, Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (New York: Verso, 1989), 63.
4. Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991). Cory A. Reed examines Don Quijote’s relationship to the external world by using chaos theory and comes to a similar conclusion: “how we perceive reality […] is a function not only of our external sense […] but also of our internal sense of imagination and how we process the information our senses receive” (742). See
5. Reed, “Chaotic Quijote: Complexity, Nonlinearity, and Perspectivism,” Hispania 77.4 (December, 1994): 738–749.