Cervantes Society of America
Newsletter
Here's
hoping that this missive reaches all of you before you depart for places
near and far for what will be a summer of much-deserved relaxation and
reinvigoration.
CSA Initiatives
The
Cervantes Society of America has initiated a program of grant support for
conferences dedicated to the study of Cervantes' works. The Society will
consider requests for up to $1000 to be used as seed money, to be matched
by the sponsoring institution. It is expected that one grant will be awarded
each year, although the evaluation of requests will necessarily take into
account the state of the Society's operating budget, so that it may not be
possible to make awards in some years. The conferences for which support
will be considered must be open to all and must issue a nation-wide call
for papers, but well-established conferences, newly organized conferences,
and special events are all eligible for consideration. Conference organizers
must be members of the Society, and must have maintained their membership
in good standing for at least five consecutive years immediately preceding
the request for support. Interested applicants should submit a request, including
a call for papers, a tentative program, budget, and a statement explaining
how the conference furthers the mission of the Society, by November I to
the President (currently James Parr, University of California-Riverside).
Decisions regarding the awards will be made at the annual meeting of the
Executive Council of the Society in December.
Bravo!
James
A. Parr presented the eleventh annual Alessandro Crisafulli lecture, entitled
Don Quixote: Telling the Tale, at Catholic University
of America on April 6, 2006.
CSA at the MLA
The
topic for the 2006 CSA session at the MLA, to be held this year in Philadelphia,
is Cervantine Architectures. The following papers will be presented:
Shelteredness and Architecture in the Quijote, Roberto
González-Echevarría (Yale University); Literal and Literary
Architecture as Legalistic Irony in Don Quijote (I, 2), Susan
K. Byrne (Fordham University); and La armoniosa arquitectura
pitagórica de las Novelas ejemplares Juan P. Gil (University
of Chicago).
Frederick
A. de Armas (University of Chicago) will preside at the Business Meeting,
and James A. Parr (University of California-Riverside) will present the keynote
address entitled On the Rhetoric Within and Without Don
Quijote.
CSA Elections
A ballot
is included with this newsletter for the election of the Vice-President (who
will become President), and for at-large delegates to the Executive Council,
the governing board of the Society. Please take the time to vote, either
by snail mail or by e-mail. The election deadline is August
1, 2006.
Cervantes on the Conference Circuit
The
Coloquio Internacional Cervantes y las
religiones, sponsored by the Departamento de Estudios Españoles
y Latinoamericanos de la Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén and the
Asociación de Cervantistas. CSA members Ruth Fine and Santiago López
Navia served as Directors, and also read papers (Fine: El entrecruzamiento
de lo hebreo y lo converso en la obra de Cervantes: un encuentro singular:
López Navia: El tratamiento de la religión en las
recreaciones narrativas de la biografía de Cervantes) and the
following other members also spoke: Frances Luttikhuisen (La primera
edición ilustrada de El Quijote [Dortrecht, 1657], un libro
de emblemas); Daniel Eisenberg ([plenary address]: La actitud
de Cervantes hacia sus antepasados judíos); David A. Boruchoff
(Doctrina, vivencia y libertad cristianas) Maria Caterina Ruta
(Una posible lectura del Quijote); Giuseppe Grilli ([plenary
address]: Valor y libertad de las religiones en el Primer
Quijote); and Joseph Ricapito (Dios como una
construcción arbitraria en el
Quijote).
The
Cervantes Symposium of California was held at the University of California-Davis
on April 15, 2006. It addressed the topic The Future of Cervantes Studies
after 2005. Francisco Márquez Villanueva (Harvard University)
gave the keynote presentation Nuevas perspectivas biográficas
de Cervantes. The following members presented papers: Emilie Bergmann
(University of California-Berkeley), Allegories of Childhood in
Cervantes; Ruben Builes (Stanford University), North and Back:
The Pan-European Cervantes of Historia septentrional; Christina
Lee (Connecticut College), Local/Popular Religion in La fuerza de
la sangre; Eduardo Olid Guerrero (University of California, Davis),
El ritual del disfraz en las Novelas ejemplares de Cervantes;
and Jorge Aladro Font (University of California, Santa Cruz), El
género epistolar en la obra de Cervantes. Those attending the
symposium were also entertained by Cervantes' entremés El viejo
celoso staged by the Golden Age theater troupe Grupo de teatro La
Poltrona directed by Adrienne Martín.
Publications by CSA Members
Chris
Sliwa has published Vida de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Barcelona:
Edition Reichenberger, 2006).
Tom
Lathrop has published a new translation of Don Quixote, based on his
own edition, designed for literature in translation courses. Instructors
who teach the Quixote in translation may request an examination copy
at lathrop@udel.edu.
Other Cervantes Publications
A Dutch
translation of Don Quijote has been published by Barber van de Pol
(Amsterdam, 2006).
An article
on Don Quijote by Georg Pichler appears in Der Fremde im Eigenen: Sprache,
Literatur, Kultur edited by María Luisa Hernández, et al.
(Madrid: Ediciones del Ordo, 2005), 545-553.
(As
always, we are indebted to Karl Ludwig Selig for these items. I apologize
both for any errors in transmitting the German, as well as for misspelling
Professor Selig's name in the last newsletter.)
Cervantine Sightings
(Thanks
again to Professor Selig.)
A number
of filmed versions of Don Quijote, by such directors as Orson Welles,
G. W. Pabst, and others, were screened at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
during December 2005. Welles' version is also mentioned as a lost
masterpiece in The Film Snob's Dictionary by David Kamp and
Lawrence Levi (NY: Broadway Books, 2005), especially pp. 83
ff.
The
Repertorio Español is presenting a dramatization of Don Quijote
through May 12 at the Gramercy Arts Theater in Manhattan.
The
March 1, 2006 New York Times included an article about a play purportedly
authored by Shakespeare and John Fletcher in or around 1612 called The
History of Cardenio and based on Don Quijote
I.
Compiled by Theresa Ann Sears, Secretary/Treasurer (Romance Languages,
UNC-Greensboro, NC 27402)
Ballot for the Election of Vice-President and At-Large
Delegates
Ballots
should be returned to Theresa Sears, Secretary/Treasurer, CSA, Dept. of Romance
Languages, U. of North Carolina-Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402 (or by e-mail
to Jarifa@aol.com) no later than August 1, 2006.
I.
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Steven
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Howard
Mancing (Purdue University) |
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Bruce
Burningham (Illinois State University) |
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William
Childers (Brooklyn College, CUNY) |
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Gerald
Gingras (St. Mary's College) |
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Sharon
Knight (Lander University) |
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Rogelio
Miñana (Macalester College) |
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Carolyn
Nadeau (Illinois Wesleyan University) |
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Cory
Reed (University of Texas) |
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Barbara
Simerka (Queen's College, CUNY) |