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Book SynopsisMillennial Cervantes explores some of the most important recent trends in Cervantes scholarship in the twenty-first century. It brings together leading Cervantes scholars of the United States in order to showcase their cutting-edge work within a cultural studies frame that encompasses everything from ekphrasis to philosophy, from sexuality to Cold War political satire, and from the culinary arts to the digital humanities. Millennial Cervantes is divided into three sets of essaysconceptually organized around thematic and methodological lines that move outward in a series of concentric circles. The first group, focused on the concept of Cervantes in his original contexts, features essays that bring new insights to these texts within the primary context of early modern Iberian culture. The second group, focused on the concept of Cervantes in comparative contexts, features essays that examine Cervantes's works in conjunction with those of the English-speaking world, both seventeenth- and
Trade Review"This collection of nine provocative, beautifully elaborated essays explores the impact of Cervantes’s writings in their own time and place, and well beyond."—E. H. Friedman,
Choice“As the four hundredth anniversary of
Don Quixote was celebrated around the world, the book was proclaimed to be not only one of the most transcendental works of the Western tradition—considered second only to the Bible—but also a global phenomenon, perfectly in keeping with our times.
Millennial Cervantes is important as part of that global celebration but also as the due contribution of North American Hispanist scholarship.”—Aurora Hermida-Ruiz, coeditor of
Garcilaso Studies: A New TrajectoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Bruce R. Burningham
Part 1. Cervantes in His Original Contexts
1. From Literary Painting to Marian Iconography: The Cult of Auristela in Cervantes’s
Persiles y Sigismunda Mercedes Alcalá Galán
2. “Dios Me Entiende y No Digo Más”: Nominalism, Humanism, and Modernity in
Don Quixote Rosilie Hernández
3. Obscene Onomastics and the Sheep-Army Episode of
Don Quixote Sherry Velasco
Part 2. Cervantes in Comparative Contexts
4. Befriending and Being Friends in Cervantes’s
La Galatea (1585) and Sidney’s
Arcadia (1593)
Marsha S. Collins
5. Cervantine Curiosity and the English Stage
Marina S. Brownlee
6. QuixoNation: Unfinished Adaptations of
Don Quixote in Cold War U.S. Cinema
William P. Childers
Part 3. Cervantes in Wider Cultural Contexts
7. Don Quixote and the American Culinary Arts
Carolyn A. Nadeau
8. Cervantes, Reality Literacy, and Fundamentalism
David Castillo and William Egginton
9.
Don Quixote and the Rise of Cyberorality
Bruce R. Burningham
Contributors
Index
