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 Our edition of Don Quijote has been enormously successful owing to its pedagogical apparatus. In light of that success, we contracted many more editions that use the same pedagogy. Editions produced in Spain for Spanish nationals assume cultural and linguistic baggage that our students simply do not and cannot have. In our editions, words that students are likely not to know are in the margin—already looked up, in English—so they know instantly what the words mean. We feel that using English is correct since using Spanish glosses either dilute the meaning (we’ve seen insecto for escarabajo, for example), or force students to look up the glossed word (such as cogote being glossed for colodrillo)! We offer also lots of footnotes that students in Spain simply do not need, but ours require. A final glossary defines more words than are in the margins, just in case. |
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