"Cosmic Wit: Essays in Honor of Edward H. Friedman," edited by Vicente Pérez de Léon, Martha García, and G. Cory Duclos
"Cosmic Wit: Essays in Honor of Edward H. Friedman," edited by Vicente Pérez de Léon, Martha García, and G. Cory Duclos
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"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