"Cosmic Wit: Essays in Honor of Edward H. Friedman," edited by Vicente Pérez de Léon, Martha García, and G. Cory Duclos
This collection of articles pays homage to the influential and generous scholar Edward H. Friedman. The editors include personal essays about their work with Professor Friedman at three pivotal points in his career: as a professor at University of Indiana, as a professor at Vanderbilt University, and as editor of Bulletin of the Comediantes. All articles are by Professor Friedman's former students.
Here are the contents:
I. Introduction
II. Breaking Away, circa 1993 / Vicente Pérez de León
III. Back in 2000 and Beyond / Martha García
IV. A Comedy of Editors 1999-2017 / G. Cory Duclos
V. Synopsis of articles
VI. Articles:
Too Near the Bone: Translation, Los melindres de Belisa and the Problem of Proximity / Mindy E. Badía
Quijotes transatlánticos and Golden-Age Latin Americanism / Robert Bayliss
Terceras and pandering wives in Tirso's El pretendiente al revés / Kathleen Costales
Well-Behaved Panzas Rarely Make History: Teresa Panza and the Metafiction of Don Quijote / G. Cory Duclos
Miguel Manipulated: Metatheater and Social Critique in Two Quixotic Puppet Operas / Timothy M. Foster
La desordenada codicia de los bienes agenos: El doctor Carlos García ante la tradición picaresca aurisecular / Antón García-Fernández
Atenea y Minerva en la temprana edad moderna: Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda & María Isidra de Guzmán / Martha García
Anacaona and the areito: A Generative Model for Pro-indigenous Discourse in Lope de Vega's El Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Cristobal Colón? / Jeanne Gillespie
El gran prodigio de España: Joanna Theodora de Souza's Performative Convent Comedia / Anna-Lisa Halling
De Lisbeth Salander a la Ertzaintza: Fantasías neoliberales en la serie procedimental de Eva García Sáenz de Urturi / Salvador A. Oropesa
Juanita versus Cecilia: Competing Allegories of Cuba by Mary Peabody Mann and Cirilo Villaverde / Julia C. Paulk
La superficie cóncava del primer cielo. Sobre la liminalidad de los periplos angulares al Lago Español de Álvaro Mendaña, Isabel de Barreto y el don Quijote portugués, Pedro Fernández de Quirós / Vicente Pérez de León
"Melancólico espejo": From Garcilaso's "Églogas" to Luis Cernuda's Égloga, elegía, oda / David F. Richter
Returning Home in Juan Ruiz de Alarcón's Plays / Gladys Robalino
El poder de las palabras: la percepción de los conversos en la literatura del Siglo de Oro / Tugba Sevin
Family Functions and Dysfunctions: Secrecy in La vida es sueño / Gwen H. Stickney
Copying the Unreal: The Multiple Imitations in the Balcony Scene of Don Gil de las calzas verdes / Robert L. Turner
La comunidad morisca del siglo dieciséis se enfrenta a los horrores de la tumba / Miguel Ángel Vázquez
Poéticas profanas de lo sagrado. Intersecciones culturales en torno a la construcción del predicador barroco. Dos propuestas teóricas / Juan Vitulli
Tilting at Relevance: The Quixotic Enterprise of Portuguese Authors of the Iberian Union / Jonathan Wade
The Importance of Humor in Recent Translations of Don Quijote / Steven B. Wenz
Don Quijote and the Construction of Dulcinea / Habib Zanzana
VII. Tuits/Tweets dedicados al Profesor Edward H. Friedman
Tabula gratulatoria
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Series: Homenajes #53
ISBN 978-1-58871-346-9 (HB) 406 pp. $60