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Now that the 1991-92 academic year draws to an end, we thought that it was
due time to report on some recent activities and publications that have come
to our notice and that might be of interest to CSA members.
At the CSA Business Meeting held last December during the MLA convention,
Daniel Eisenberg reported on recent meetings of cervantistas held
in Spain during 1991. The following has been excerpted from a written report
that he shared with us:
The Cuarto Coloquio Internacional de
la Asociación de Cervantistas met in Alcalá de Henares on November
25-27, 1991. The general topic was “Proyección de Cervantes en
el mundo”; about 40 papers were presented and the plenarias consisted
of panels of 2 or 3 people discussing “Cervantes en los países
de habla inglesa,” “Italia,” “Alemania,”
“URSS,” “los países balcánicos,”
“Japón,” and “Galicia y Cataluña.” The
Actas will be published by Editorial Anthropos. Anthropos has begun
a new series of Cervantine studies, in which Eduardo Urbina's latest book,
El sin par Sancho Panza: parodia y creación, has recently appeared;
new manuscripts for the series are welcomed.
At the business meeting of the Coloquio, José
María Casasayas updated the participants on several topics of interest:
the AdeC will hold an annual coloquio internacional in Alcalá;
every three years there is to be a congreso internacional, the first
of which was held in Almagro in 1991. The next will be in Naples, in 1994,
coordinated by Giuseppe Grilli.
A Centro de Estudios Cervantinos has been founded
in Alcalá and its current president is Carlos Alvar. Close collaboration
between the Centro and the Asociación de Cervantistas is expected.
The Centro is housed in the nineteenth-century Palacete Laredo, where some
of the sessions of the Coloquio took place. The projected Edición
Crítica de las Obras Completas de Cervantes will also be housed there,
as will a future Cervantine library. Because the completion of the Edición
Crítica will take at least 10 years, the first concrete product of
the Centro will be an “edición puente” of the complete works,
which while not a critical edition, should be better than anything now available.
This edition should be published within two years.
Casasayas also announced a bibliographical
series, whose first product will be a Bibliografía de bibliografías
cervantinas, and for which international collaboration will be sought. Finally,
there was talk of preparing a Cervantine encyclopedia or handbook.
On November 28, various participants in the
coloquio were taken by bus to Montilla (Córdoba), which on December
1st celebrated the fourth centenary of Cervantes' extended visit and where
(from Nov. 29 to Dec. 1) 24 papers were presented on the topics of eroticism
and witchcraft in Cervantes. Featured speakers were Javier Herrero, Mauricio
Molho, and Monique Joly. Participants from the USA included Steven Hutchinson,
Anthony Cárdenas, and Michael Hasbrouck. Meetings took place in the
restored house of the Inca Garcilaso and, on the last day, in the Ayuntamiento,
the place in which Berganza listened to la Cañizares in the
“Coloquio de los perros.” Selected papers from this conference
will be published in Cervantes under the guest editorship of Daniel
Eisenberg.
On April 25th, 1992, UC Santa Barbara hosted the Southern California Cervantes
Symposium. Organized by Enrique Martínez López and other members
of the UCSB faculty, the program included the following presentations:
Diana de Armas Wilson (U. of Denver), “Cervantes and The Matter
of America.”
Katheryn A. Thompson (UC Riverside), “Los versos intercalados del
Quijote de 1605: Aspectos de su forma y función.”
Luis Andrés Murillo (UC Berkeley), “The Helmet of Mambrino,
A California Postscript: Cervantes and Clarence King.”
Felisa Guillén (Occidental Coll.), “Reclusión doméstica
o vida conventual: ámbitos femeninos en Cervantes y María de
Zayas.”
Alison Caplan (UCSB), “Divine Providence and the Chivalric World: The
Narrative Structure of Don Quijote.”
Michael McGaha (Pomona Coll.), “Cervantes and Islam.”
Jorge Checa (UCSB), “Representación y conflicto discursivo en
el episodio de Marcela y Grisóstomo.”
Eduardo Urbina (Texas A & M), “Vencedor de sí mismo:
El desafortunado caballero don Quijote de la Mancha.”
Other publications, lectures, and conference papers of interest include the
following:
Ellen Anderson (York Univ., Toronto) has had an article entitled
“The Lover into the Beloved Transformed: Neoplatonic Love as a Means
of Self-Transformation in Cervantes' El rufián dichoso”
published in Love and Death in the Renaissance (Selected Proceedings
of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America). Ottawa:
Dovehouse, 1991.
Prof. Anderson also presented two papers this spring:
“Stepping out of the Maze: The Construction of Gender in Cervantes'
El laberinto de amor.” Twelfth Annual Symposium on Golden Age
Spanish Drama, UT El Paso, March 1992; and
“From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Metonymy and Metaphor in Los
tratos de Argel and Don Quixote, Part I.” Forty-fifth Annual
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington KY, April 1992.
Also at the Kentucky conference, a session devoted to Cervantes featured
the following papers:
Thomas Lathrop (U. of Delaware), “Priests = Devils in Don
Quixote.”
Jesús García-Varela (U. of Louisville), “La función
del retrato en el Quijote.”
William H. Clamurro (Denison U.), “The Uses of Entrancement: Fainting
and Trance in the Novelas ejempalres of Cervantes.”
Oscar Ozete (U. of Southern Indiana), “Interpreting Cervantes' Galley-slave
Episode.”
Myriam Yvonne Jehenson (SUNY Oswego) published an article entitled “The
Dorotea-Fernando/Luscinda-Cardenio Episode in Don Quijote: A Postmodernist
Play” in MLN 107, no. 2 (March 1992).
Charles Ganelin (Purdue) has sent us a report on the Third Purdue Univ.
Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures & Film, held last October.
The presentations pertinent to Cervantes studies included the following:
Karen Lucas (Birmingham-Southern Coll.), “The Carnivalesque Uncrowning
of Dulcinea.”
Charles Oriel (Washington U., St. Louis), “Dialogue in/of Adventures:
Don Quixote, Part I, Chapter 4.”
Bryant Creel (U. of Tennessee), “The ‘Enchantment’ of Metaphor
in Don Quixote.”
Prof. Ganelin also tells us that “The first two essays will be included
in the Romance Languages Annual 3 (1991), available for $25 (check
payable to RLA, Purdue U.) from Ms. Deborah Starewich, Managing Editor,
RLA, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Purdue University,
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1359. Those interested in submitting essays to the
Fourth Annual Purdue University Conference on Roamnce Languages, Literatures
& Film, to be held 15-17 October 1992, may contact Charles Ganelin at
Purdue or by e-mail at ganelinc@vm.cc.purdue.edu.”
James A. Parr (UC, Riverside) informs us that he was a Fulbright lecturer
on Don Quixote and other classic Spanish texts for ten weeks during
the summer of 1991 in Uruguay and Argentina. In Uruguay he lectured at the
Universidad de la República and the Cátedra Alicia Goyena in
Montevideo, and in Argentina he lectured at the Universidad Nacional del
Sur, the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, the Universidad Nacional de Salta,
the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, and the Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Alison Weber (Univ. of Virginia) gave a lecture entitled “Preciosa Unbound:
Parody and Gender in La gitanilla” at the Univ. of Toronto in
April.
Salvador J. Fajardo (SUNY, Binghamton) is directing an NEH Summer Seminar
for School Teachers on “Reading Don Quixote.” The seminar
will be held in Binghamton from June 27 to August 7.
Recent and forthcoming books include the following:
Eduardo Urbina (Texas A & M), El sin par Sancho Panza: parodia
y creación (Barcelona: Anthropos, 1991).
Miguel de Cervantes, Viaje del Parnaso, poesías varias,
edición crítica de Elias L. Rivers (Madrid: Espasa-Calpe,
1991).
Francisco Sánchez (Denison U.), El discurso dramático de
las ‘Novelas ejemplares’ de Cervantes, forthcoming from Editorial
Pliegos.
Two fairly recent handbooks or critical introductions to the Quijote
should be noted:
Carroll B. Johnson (UCLA), Don Quixote: The Quest for Modern
Fiction (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1991), part of Twaynes Masterworks Series.
Luis Andrés Murillo (UC Berkeley), A Critical Introduction to Don
Quixote (New York: Peter Lang, 1988,1990).
Finally, the organizers of the upcoming congreso of the AIH (to be held at
UC Irvine), 24-29 August 1992, inform us that there will be five sessions
devoted to Cervantes; tentatively, they are as follows:
1. Novelas ejemplares
María Caterina Ruta, “Otros recorridos del realismo
cervantino”
Steven Hutchinson, “Economías del valor en las Novelas
ejemplares”
William Clamurro, “El amante liberal y las fronteras de la
identidad”
Joseph Ricapito, “Católicos secretos: los conversos y el mito
de la vida marítima en La española inglesa”
2. Aspectos carnavalescos del Quijote
Agustin Redondo, “El triunfo del bufón Escolio en el diálogo
entre el duque y Sancho a raíz del vuelo de Clavileño
(DQ II, 41)”
Amy Williamsen, “La inversión carnavalesca en el
Persiles”
Jaime Fernández, S.J. “La indumentaria de don Quijote (II,
46)”
3. Personajes del Quijote
Judith Whitenack, “Don Quijote y la maga: otra mujer que ‘no
parece’”
Darío Fernández Morera, “Axiología, simbolismo
y sicología en el Caballero del Verde Gabán”
Thomas A. Lathrop, “Cura=diablo en el Quijote”
4. Don Quijote: Texto y lectura
James A. Parr, “Antimodelos narrativos del Quijote: lo innarrable,
no narrado y desnarrado”
Ma. Augusta Vieira Helene, “Don Quijote: sus dudas y sus
lectores”
Martina Guzmán Pinedo, “El Quijote como texto de
fundación”
Gonzalo Sobejano, “La prosa del mundo en el Quijote:
ilustraciones”
5. Influjos e influencias sobre Don Quijote
Antonio P. Cao, “Posible génesis y primeras recepciones teatrales
del Quijote”
José Manuel Martín Morán, “Cervantes y Avellaneda:
Apuntes para una relectura del Quijote”
Pedro Javier Pardo-García, “Cervantes y Chrétien de Troyes:
Métière, conjointure y sens”
Please send any and all news and bibliographical items to us for future
inclusion in the newsletter.
Cervantes Society of America
c/o William H. Clamurro
Department of Modern Languages
Denison University
Box M
Granville, OH 43023
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