29 essays honoring the career of Frederick A. de Armas. The contributors include Mary E. Barnard... more 29 essays honoring the career of Frederick A. de Armas. The contributors include Mary E. Barnard, Emilie L. Bergmann, Josiah Blackmore, Don W. Cruickshank, Anne J. Cruz, Santiago Fernández Mosquera, Edward H. Friedman, Charles Victor Ganelin, Luciano García Lorenzo, Enrique García Santo-Tomás, E. Michael Gerli, Ryan Giles, Juan Pablo Gil-Osle, Roberto González Echevarría, Julio González-Ruiz, Margaret Greer, Luis Iglesias Feijoo, Armando Maggi, Rogelio Miñana, Carolyn A. Nadeau, Benjamin J. Nelson, James A. Parr, Thomas Pavel, Antonio Sánchez Jiménez, Peter Thompson, Julio Vélez Sainz, Steven Wagschal, Christopher B. Weimer, Kerry K. Wilks
16 essays exploring intertextual connections between early modern Spanish texts and literatures o... more 16 essays exploring intertextual connections between early modern Spanish texts and literatures of other cultures and periods. Contributors include Walter Cohen, Margaret Greer, Amy R. Williamsen, Salvador Oropesa, Sidney E. Donnell, Salvador J. Fajardo, James A. Parr, Anne J. Cruz, Amy Pawl, Thomas P. Finn, William R. Blue, Diana de Armas Wilson, Perry Gethner, Barbara A. Simerka, Christopher B. Weimer, and Frederick A. de Armas.
"Tirso de Molina: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century", 2023
In "Tirso de Molina: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century". Ed. Esther Fe... more In "Tirso de Molina: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century". Ed. Esther Fernández. Woodbridge: Tamesis (2023), 41-54.
Introductory essay to C. George Peale's critical edition of El rey muerto, by Damián Salucio del ... more Introductory essay to C. George Peale's critical edition of El rey muerto, by Damián Salucio del Poyo (eHumanista 2023).
Peculiar Lives in Early Modern Spain: Essays Celebrating Amy Williamsen, 2020
In Peculiar Lives in Early Modern Spain: Essays Celebrating Amy Williamsen (Volume I), ed. Robert... more In Peculiar Lives in Early Modern Spain: Essays Celebrating Amy Williamsen (Volume I), ed. Robert Bayliss and Judith G. Caballero. UP of the South, 2020. 253-264.
This essay examines the relationship between the early modern discourses of love and memory in Ca... more This essay examines the relationship between the early modern discourses of love and memory in Calderón's 1636 comedy El escondido y la tapada. The work's action takes place almost entirely within one setting: the Madrid house from which the protagonist César finds himself unable to escape. Calderón exploits this setting to bring together his era's architectural theories of memory and its mnemonic theories of love. The ars memorativa recommended that its adepts visualize their memories as invented or real buildings within the rooms of which they placed evocative images, including those of attractive women, while lovesickness was considered a disorder of the memory, from which the arresting image of a beloved could not be dislodged. In El escondido y la tapada, the onstage house serves as a psychological metaphor given polyvalent scenic form, representing not only César's dysfunctional psyche, jointly occupied by the two women with whom he is simultaneously (though not equally) in love, but both their minds as well. Moreover, this device self-reflexively links El escondido to the era's much-theorized memory theaters, such as those of Giulio Camilo and Robert Fludd, and invites a metatheatrical reading of the play as an exemplary comedia de capa y espada.
Published in:
Religious and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain: Essays in Honor of Donald T. Di... more Published in:
Religious and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain: Essays in Honor of Donald T. Dietz. Ed. Susan Paun de García and Donald R. Larson. Peter Lang, 2017.
29 essays honoring the career of Frederick A. de Armas. The contributors include Mary E. Barnard... more 29 essays honoring the career of Frederick A. de Armas. The contributors include Mary E. Barnard, Emilie L. Bergmann, Josiah Blackmore, Don W. Cruickshank, Anne J. Cruz, Santiago Fernández Mosquera, Edward H. Friedman, Charles Victor Ganelin, Luciano García Lorenzo, Enrique García Santo-Tomás, E. Michael Gerli, Ryan Giles, Juan Pablo Gil-Osle, Roberto González Echevarría, Julio González-Ruiz, Margaret Greer, Luis Iglesias Feijoo, Armando Maggi, Rogelio Miñana, Carolyn A. Nadeau, Benjamin J. Nelson, James A. Parr, Thomas Pavel, Antonio Sánchez Jiménez, Peter Thompson, Julio Vélez Sainz, Steven Wagschal, Christopher B. Weimer, Kerry K. Wilks
16 essays exploring intertextual connections between early modern Spanish texts and literatures o... more 16 essays exploring intertextual connections between early modern Spanish texts and literatures of other cultures and periods. Contributors include Walter Cohen, Margaret Greer, Amy R. Williamsen, Salvador Oropesa, Sidney E. Donnell, Salvador J. Fajardo, James A. Parr, Anne J. Cruz, Amy Pawl, Thomas P. Finn, William R. Blue, Diana de Armas Wilson, Perry Gethner, Barbara A. Simerka, Christopher B. Weimer, and Frederick A. de Armas.
"Tirso de Molina: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century", 2023
In "Tirso de Molina: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century". Ed. Esther Fe... more In "Tirso de Molina: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century". Ed. Esther Fernández. Woodbridge: Tamesis (2023), 41-54.
Introductory essay to C. George Peale's critical edition of El rey muerto, by Damián Salucio del ... more Introductory essay to C. George Peale's critical edition of El rey muerto, by Damián Salucio del Poyo (eHumanista 2023).
Peculiar Lives in Early Modern Spain: Essays Celebrating Amy Williamsen, 2020
In Peculiar Lives in Early Modern Spain: Essays Celebrating Amy Williamsen (Volume I), ed. Robert... more In Peculiar Lives in Early Modern Spain: Essays Celebrating Amy Williamsen (Volume I), ed. Robert Bayliss and Judith G. Caballero. UP of the South, 2020. 253-264.
This essay examines the relationship between the early modern discourses of love and memory in Ca... more This essay examines the relationship between the early modern discourses of love and memory in Calderón's 1636 comedy El escondido y la tapada. The work's action takes place almost entirely within one setting: the Madrid house from which the protagonist César finds himself unable to escape. Calderón exploits this setting to bring together his era's architectural theories of memory and its mnemonic theories of love. The ars memorativa recommended that its adepts visualize their memories as invented or real buildings within the rooms of which they placed evocative images, including those of attractive women, while lovesickness was considered a disorder of the memory, from which the arresting image of a beloved could not be dislodged. In El escondido y la tapada, the onstage house serves as a psychological metaphor given polyvalent scenic form, representing not only César's dysfunctional psyche, jointly occupied by the two women with whom he is simultaneously (though not equally) in love, but both their minds as well. Moreover, this device self-reflexively links El escondido to the era's much-theorized memory theaters, such as those of Giulio Camilo and Robert Fludd, and invites a metatheatrical reading of the play as an exemplary comedia de capa y espada.
Published in:
Religious and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain: Essays in Honor of Donald T. Di... more Published in:
Religious and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain: Essays in Honor of Donald T. Dietz. Ed. Susan Paun de García and Donald R. Larson. Peter Lang, 2017.
Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies, 2021
The eleven novels and several shorter texts comprising Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne and Griffin seri... more The eleven novels and several shorter texts comprising Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne and Griffin series (2012-2019) blend two seemingly incompatible genres: Lovecraftian weird fiction and male/male paranormal romance. In an ominously familiar 1890s New England setting, antiquarian scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne and ex-Pinkerton private detective Griffin Flaherty confront the obstacles to their prohibited relationship even as they contend with dark family secrets, deranged sorcerers, and re-emergent Old Ones. Queering Lovecraft's fictional world, however, is a more complex process than merely confronting a same-sex couple with Lovecraftian dangers. To achieve this generic hybrid, Hawk must rework Lovecraft's poetics of atmosphere, plot, and character to craft emotion-driven narratives leading to romance fiction's required "happily ever after" endings. Hawk deploys the port city of Widdershins, so reminiscent of Lovecraft's Arkham, Kingsport, Dunwich, and Innsmouth, as a Gothic "uncanny city" in which a spectrum of queer and taboo-breaking desires can be acknowledged and pursued-and in which Whyborne and Griffin can heal one another's emotional scars. Most important, Hawk rejects and redefines the conceptualizations and treatments of otherness that are both explicitly and implicitly fundamental to Lovecraft's weird tales and so revealing of his prejudices and obsessions. Sexual, magical, and racial differences must face ignorance, bigotry, and danger in Hawk's narratives, but the Whyborne and Griffin romances ultimately accept, include, and celebrate those differences in the relationships and in the community at the core of the stories.
Table of Contents
Articles and Talks
Why Cervantes in China?: Hyperreality and Cevantine ... more Table of Contents
Articles and Talks
Why Cervantes in China?: Hyperreality and Cevantine Cultural encounters in Beijing 2016 (Tang Xianzu, Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Borges)
Juan Pablo Gil-Osle, Arizona State University…………………….3
Salvador Dalí’s Don Quixote: High Art or Kitsch?
William Daniel Holcombe, Clemson University…………………13
Mammoth Woolly Migrations: Transhumance, Extinction, and the Cervantine Shepherd
Margaret Marek, Illinois College…………………………………27
Transcendental metagenre travelers: a background of the reception of Cervantes’ Don Quixote in Spain and France
Vicente Pérez de León, University of Glasgow
Véronique Duché, University of Melbourne……………………53
“ . . . And things that go bump in the night:” Narrative Deferral, the Supernatural, and the Metafictive Uncanny in Don Quijote
Christopher Weimer, Oklahoma State University………………74
La enseñanza y la aceptación de las obras de Cervantes en China desde métodos multidisciplinarios
Zhang Jingting, Universidad de Estudios Internacionales de Shanghái………………………………………………………....94
“Yo sé quién soy:” La quijotización de Dulcinea y la dulcinización de Don
Quijote en una película de Vicente Escrivá
María José Domínguez, Arizona State University………………114
21st-Century Quixotes: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Global Classrooms
Rogelio Miñana, Drexel University……………………………..122
Program of the Conference at the University in Chicago Center in Beijing: “Cervantes in his 400th Anniversary in China.”
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Book Reviews
David William Foster. Alexandre de Gusmão, The Story of the Predestined Pilgrim and His Brother Reprobate, in Which, through a Mysterious Parable, Is Told the Felicitous Success of the One Saved and the Unfortunate Lot of the One Condemned. Trans., with an introd. and Index by Christopher C. Lund. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016. Xxxv, 137 pp., plates
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Juan Pablo Gil-Osle. Barbara Fuchs, The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. pp. 186. ISBN: 9780812244755
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Andrés F. Ruiz-Olaya. Franklin G.Y. Pease, El mar peruano: mitos andinos y europeos. Comp. Nicanor Domínguez Faura. Lima: Sociedad Geográfica de Lima, 2015
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Mirror on the Stage: (Refl) Ekphrasis and Agustín Moreto’s La loa de Juan Rana
Felipe E. Rojas, U... more Mirror on the Stage: (Refl) Ekphrasis and Agustín Moreto’s La loa de Juan Rana Felipe E. Rojas, University of Chicago
Morisca Acts of Resistance and the Subversive Agency of Isabel/Zelima in María de Zayas’s La esclava de su amante Bradford Ellis, St. Norbert College
War Machines: Instrumentality and Empire in Early Modern Spanish Drama Cory A. Reed, The University of Texas at Austin
From the Roman Baroque to the Indian Jungle: Francis Xavier’s Letters from Goa, or the Construction of a God Frédéric Conrod, Florida Atlantic University
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Editor’s Notes
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Fashion and Nationalism: Political Critique in Early Mo... more Table of contents
Editor’s Notes
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Fashion and Nationalism: Political Critique in Early Modern Costume Books. George Antony Thomas
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“¡Ay, reino mal gobernado!”: The Monarchy in Mira de Amescua’s Las desgracias del rey don Alfonso, el Casto. Matthew D. Stroud
27
Harmony as Narrative in “La española inglesa.” Gregory Baum
43
Schema Theory, Prototype Theory, and the Novela Dialogada: Toward a Perspectivist and Dynamic View of Literary Genres. Julien J. Simon
64
From Perú to Appalachia: Amazons, El Dorado, and the improbable mythology of the Virginia state seal. Kimberly C. Borchard
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Book reviews:
Della Porta, Giovan Battista. The Art of Remembering: L’arte del ricordare. Ed. Armando Maggi and Frederick A. de Armas. Trans. Miriam Aloisio et al. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2012.
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Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain. Eds. Mary E. Barnard and Frederick A. de Armas. Toronto: Toronto UP, 2013.
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Vélez Sainz, Julio. “De amor, de honor e de donas” Mujer e ideales corteses en la Castilla de Juan II (1406-1454). Madrid: Editorial Complutense, 2013.
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Ana María Rodríguez-Rodríguez. Letras liberadas: Cautiverio, escritura y subjetividad en el Mediterráneo de la época imperial española. Madrid: Visor Libros, 2013.
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The concept of pintura permeates and dominates Tirso de Molina's La vida y muerte de Herodes ... more The concept of pintura permeates and dominates Tirso de Molina's La vida y muerte de Herodes on literal, figurative and symbolic levels. This study places Tirso's use of pintura within a Derridean context by demonstrating how painting functions as Plato and Derrida's simultaneously salutary and poisonous pharmakon. Portraits of Herodes's royal characters serve as visual aphrodisiacs which ultimately bring about only tragedy. Verbal descriptions, repeatedly introduced with the verb pintar, similarly deceive and destroy. The text even directly constitutes writing as a form of pintura; it too acts mendaciously and harmfully. All these illusory manifestations of pintura counterpoint the painted onstage tableau of the Adoration of the Christ Child. Here pintura becomes a vehicle of spiritual healing and salvation, emphasizing its pharmakon-esque self-contradiction and mutability. (CBW)
Estreno Cuadernos De Teatro Espanol Contemporaneo, 1994
... LOGOCENTRISM IN CRISIS: BUERO VALLEJO´S EL SUEÑO DE LA RAZÓN AS POST-STRUCTURALIST TEXT. Auto... more ... LOGOCENTRISM IN CRISIS: BUERO VALLEJO´S EL SUEÑO DE LA RAZÓN AS POST-STRUCTURALIST TEXT. Autores: Christopher B. Weimer; Localización: Estreno: cuadernos de teatro español contemporáneo, ISSN 0097-8663, Nº. 2, 1994 , págs. 29-32. Fundación Dialnet ...
Scholarly discussions of cinematic postmodernism frequently posit an implicit opposition between ... more Scholarly discussions of cinematic postmodernism frequently posit an implicit opposition between two categories of film-making: big-budget, profit-oriented motion pictures and the so-called "art house" cinema of European auteur productions and independent American films. While the films assigned to the first category (especially those made in Hollywood) are often scorned as "bland, formulaic entertainment, contrived by committee and aimed at the widest, least demanding audiences" (Andrew 38), those assigned to the second are at least equally as often privileged as sites of postmodern and other non-traditional cinema aesthetics; R. Barton Palmer foregrounds this aspect of many American independent films when he describes them as "'difficult', with narratives that are hard to follow or even bewildering, stylizations pushed to excess, and nearly impenetrable themes" (28). Such assumptions, however, ignore the persistent and very real presence of at least some of postmodernism's salient features in a significant number of widely-released European and American feature films of recent years, motion pictures made with every intention of attracting large audiences. Indeed, Palmer argues that Hollywood's output since the 1980s has consistently included the work of filmmakers who aim at a hybrid form that he terms "commercial/independent film, a particular form of postmodern cinema that complexly intersects and deconstructs the contrast between high culture and mass culture" (30). Such filmmakers draw freely on modernist and postmodern devices, but "only those that can be accommodated to the tastes of a broader, more commercial audience" (31); Palmer offers the examples of directors such as Quentin Tarantino and Spike Lee (35), but we might also include the works of Terry Gilliam (Time Bandits, Twelve Monkeys, Brazil, The Fisher King) and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adap- tation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). In this study we will examine certain postmodern elements of two popular motion pictures of the last decade: Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar's 1997 film Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) and its 2001 Hollywood remake, Vanilla Sky, directed by Cameron Crowe. In so doing, we will both demonstrate how postmodernism can manifest itself in commercially-oriented motion pictures and compare the aspects of postmodernism most prominent in these two film versions--one European and one made in Hollywood--of the same story. Tempting though it might be to assume that the American film will dilute its source's postmodernism, we will see that this is not necessarily the case. One irony inherent in casual dismissals of film audiences' receptivity to postmodernism is that cinema, as perhaps the most mimetic of all representational arts, has an equally great potential to problematize and to interrogate its own representational techniques. This potential is the very essence of postmodernism, of course, for one of the primary tenets of postmodern thought is the relative and slippery nature of truth, which cannot help but radically complicate any process of representation, much less one as complex as film. Linda Hutcheon writes that postmodernism's "entire formal and thematic energy is founded in its philosophical problematizing of the nature of reference, of the relation of word to thing" (19). Similarly, in his postmodern analysis of mimesis, Jean Baudrillard outlines a continuum with four phases of increasingly uncertain connection between representation and reality: 1) "reflection of a profound reality, 2) mask{ing} and denatur{ing} a profound reality, 3) mask{ing} the absence of a profound reality," and 4) representation with "no relation to any reality whatsoever; it is its own pure simulacrum" (Simulacra 6). Baudrillard also notes that where conventional pretense "leaves the principle of reality intact," simulation undermines the possibility for a clear distinction between real and imaginary. As we will see, Abre los ojos and Vanilla Sky both incorporate a postmodern stance toward filmic representation as they revision the genre of the psychological thriller in order to question the possibility of certain knowledge. …
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Religious and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain: Essays in Honor of Donald T. Dietz. Ed. Susan Paun de García and Donald R. Larson. Peter Lang, 2017.
Religious and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain: Essays in Honor of Donald T. Dietz. Ed. Susan Paun de García and Donald R. Larson. Peter Lang, 2017.
Articles and Talks
Why Cervantes in China?: Hyperreality and Cevantine Cultural encounters in Beijing 2016 (Tang Xianzu, Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Borges)
Juan Pablo Gil-Osle, Arizona State University…………………….3
Salvador Dalí’s Don Quixote: High Art or Kitsch?
William Daniel Holcombe, Clemson University…………………13
Mammoth Woolly Migrations: Transhumance, Extinction, and the Cervantine Shepherd
Margaret Marek, Illinois College…………………………………27
Transcendental metagenre travelers: a background of the reception of Cervantes’ Don Quixote in Spain and France
Vicente Pérez de León, University of Glasgow
Véronique Duché, University of Melbourne……………………53
“ . . . And things that go bump in the night:” Narrative Deferral, the Supernatural, and the Metafictive Uncanny in Don Quijote
Christopher Weimer, Oklahoma State University………………74
La enseñanza y la aceptación de las obras de Cervantes en China desde métodos multidisciplinarios
Zhang Jingting, Universidad de Estudios Internacionales de Shanghái………………………………………………………....94
“Yo sé quién soy:” La quijotización de Dulcinea y la dulcinización de Don
Quijote en una película de Vicente Escrivá
María José Domínguez, Arizona State University………………114
21st-Century Quixotes: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Global Classrooms
Rogelio Miñana, Drexel University……………………………..122
Program of the Conference at the University in Chicago Center in Beijing: “Cervantes in his 400th Anniversary in China.”
………………………………...……..………………………...132
Book Reviews
David William Foster. Alexandre de Gusmão, The Story of the Predestined Pilgrim and His Brother Reprobate, in Which, through a Mysterious Parable, Is Told the Felicitous Success of the One Saved and the Unfortunate Lot of the One Condemned. Trans., with an introd. and Index by Christopher C. Lund. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016. Xxxv, 137 pp., plates
……………………………………………………………… 139
Juan Pablo Gil-Osle. Barbara Fuchs, The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. pp. 186. ISBN: 9780812244755
…………………...…………………………………………… 142
Andrés F. Ruiz-Olaya. Franklin G.Y. Pease, El mar peruano: mitos andinos y europeos. Comp. Nicanor Domínguez Faura. Lima: Sociedad Geográfica de Lima, 2015
….……………………………………………………………...145
Felipe E. Rojas, University of Chicago
Morisca Acts of Resistance and the Subversive Agency of Isabel/Zelima in María de Zayas’s La esclava de su amante
Bradford Ellis, St. Norbert College
War Machines: Instrumentality and Empire in Early Modern Spanish Drama
Cory A. Reed, The University of Texas at Austin
From the Roman Baroque to the Indian Jungle: Francis Xavier’s Letters from Goa, or the Construction of a God
Frédéric Conrod, Florida Atlantic University
Editor’s Notes
6
Fashion and Nationalism: Political Critique in Early Modern Costume Books. George Antony Thomas
8
“¡Ay, reino mal gobernado!”: The Monarchy in Mira de Amescua’s Las desgracias del rey don Alfonso, el Casto. Matthew D. Stroud
27
Harmony as Narrative in “La española inglesa.” Gregory Baum
43
Schema Theory, Prototype Theory, and the Novela Dialogada: Toward a Perspectivist and Dynamic View of Literary Genres. Julien J. Simon
64
From Perú to Appalachia: Amazons, El Dorado, and the improbable mythology of the Virginia state seal. Kimberly C. Borchard
91
Book reviews:
Della Porta, Giovan Battista. The Art of Remembering: L’arte del ricordare. Ed. Armando Maggi and Frederick A. de Armas. Trans. Miriam Aloisio et al. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2012.
119
Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain. Eds. Mary E. Barnard and Frederick A. de Armas. Toronto: Toronto UP, 2013.
122
Vélez Sainz, Julio. “De amor, de honor e de donas” Mujer e ideales corteses en la Castilla de Juan II (1406-1454). Madrid: Editorial Complutense, 2013.
125
Ana María Rodríguez-Rodríguez. Letras liberadas: Cautiverio, escritura y subjetividad en el Mediterráneo de la época imperial española. Madrid: Visor Libros, 2013.
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