Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America articles

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Character-building in Don Quijote.
September 22, 2007... AMIGOS CERVANTISTAS Y QUIJOTESCOS: A focus of my paper is characterization in Don Quijote, including the elements within the narrative that point the knight errant toward and away from what has come to be known as realism. (1) Cervantes's deviation from literary idealism points, on the one...

Luces, camara ... inaccion en Lost in La Mancha: la realidad de una ficcion que nunca existio.
September 22, 2007... When I make a film, the process of making it starts to emulate the story I am telling TERRY GILLIAM (1) APUNTO DE EMPRENDERSE la pendencia entre don Quijote y el vizcaíno en el capítulo VIII de la primera parte de Don Quijote, el lector se encuentra inesperadamente con la intromisión...

Don Alvaro Tarfe (Quijote II, cap. 73), morisco ahidalgado.
September 22, 2007... MI PROPÓSITO NO ES estudiar el personaje así llamado que nace y juega un papel importante en el apócrifo Segundo tomo del ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (1614), sino comentar la réplica que introduce Cervantes en el capítulo setenta y dos de su Segunda parte del ingenioso...

Lost in the details: translating master Peter's puppet show.
September 22, 2007... TRANSLATION IS A SISYPHEAN task, one that promises frustration and despair for the translator and dissatisfaction, at best, for the reader of the translation. The great Spanish critic Ortega y Gasset says, "the idea that there ate philosophers and, more generally speaking writers who can, in...

Cervantes' Don Quijote as legal commentary.
September 22, 2007... THE SCENE IN DON Quijote I, 3, in which Cervantes' protagonist is knighted by the ventero, has been commented on by a number of scholars. Opinions range from it being "historically and legally precise," (1) to it being one of Cervantes' most audacious gibes, (2) of a farce in grotesque...