A Character Named Cervantes: On Screen, on Stage, and on the Page

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A Character Named Cervantes

On Screen, on Stage, and on the Page

Edited by: Howard Mancing and Tatevik Gulamiryan

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Volume 95 | Toronto Iberic

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This book examines Miguel de Cervantes's appearances in film, literature, theatre, and art, exploring the multifaceted ways he is depicted as both a historical figure and a fictional character.

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Mancing Howard :

Howard Mancing is a professor emeritus of Spanish at Purdue University.Gulamiryan Tatevik :

Tatevik Gyulamiryan is an associate professor of Spanish at Hope College.

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Literary Studies Romance Literature Hispanic Literature Hispanic Literature, general

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: The Fictional Lives of Miguel de Cervantes Howard Mancing and Tatevik Gyulamiryan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Critical Perspectives
Chapter One The First Two Centuries of Cervantes in Fiction Howard Mancing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
Chapter Two Don Quixote Lurks Behind Miguel de Cervantes: The Portrait Tradition from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries Rachel Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	35
Cervantes in Fiction
Chapter Three “An adventure of the strangest kind”: Dialogue across the Centuries in Paul Scheerbart’s Fantasy Novella Cervantes Jennifer Marston William Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	59
Chapter Four “La dolorosa gloria”: Cervantes’s Character in Manuel Mujica Láinez’s Bomarzo Yelsy Hernández Zamora and Nils Longueira Borrego Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	71
Chapter Five “Parecía reír el ave”: The Fictive Miguel de Cervantes’s Use of Constructive Anthropomorphism in “Las gallinas de Cervantes” by Ramón J. Sender Steven Wagschal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
Chapter Six Fictionalizing Historical Cervantes: Stephen Marlowe’s The Death and Life of Miguel de Cervantes Joan Cammarata Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
Chapter Seven Miguel de Cervantes, Biofictional Superhero Michael J. McGrath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	110
Chapter Eight A Certain Cervantes: Reimagining an American Cervantes in the French Graphic Novel Sarah Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	122
Chapter Nine Ariel Dorfman’s Cautivos: Channelling the Search for Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation through Miguel de Cervantes Badley J. Nelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
Cervantes on Stage and on Screen
Chapter Ten Cervantes through the Women in His Family: Pingüinas by Fernando Arrabal and Las Cervantas by Inma Chacón and José Ramón Fernández Aroa Algaba Granero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
Chapter Eleven Time-Travel Cervantes: Sci-Fi, Rivalry, and Theory of Mind in El ministerio del tiempo and Cervantes contra Lope Isabel Jaén and Julien Jacques Simon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	168
Chapter Twelve A Bone of Contention: The Contested Exhumation of Miguel de Cervantes Carmen Moreno-Nuño Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
Chapter Thirteen Towards the Creation of a Myth of a Hero: Cervantes, War, and Captivity Tatevik Gyulamiryan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197
Chapter Fourteen Second(ary) Acts: Cervantes on the Page Edward H. Friedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	209
Conclusion Lo que quedó en el tintero Howard Mancing and Tatevik Gyulamiryan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	226
Appendix 1 A Cervantes Chronology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	235
Appendix 2 Works by Cervantes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	241
Appendix 3 Cervantes on Stage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	243
Appendix 4 Cervantes in the Novel (more than 15,000 words) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	247
Appendix 5 Cervantes in Short Fiction (fewer than 15,000 words) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
Appendix 6 Cervantes on Screen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	261
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	269
Toronto Iberic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	289

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February 28, 2025

eBook ISBN:

9781487558895

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

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306

Illustrations:

9

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487558895

eBook ISBN: 9781487558895

Keywords for this book

Cervantes in literature; Cervantes in film; biographical analysis; historical narratives; Cervantes's influence on literature; cultural interpretations; Quixotic adventures; literature and imagination

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College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;

A Character Named Cervantes

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