Millennial Cervantes

New Currents in Cervantes Studies

Bruce R. Burningham

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781496219701
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Millennial 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 essays—conceptually 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 twentieth-century. The third group, focused on the concept of "Cervantes in wider cultural contexts, " examines Cervantes's works—principally Don Quixote —as points of departure for other cultural products and wider intellectual debates. This collection articulates the state of Cervantes studies in the first two decades of the new millennium as we move further into a century that promises both unimagined technological advances and the concomitant cultural changes that will naturally adhere to this new technology, whatever it may be.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part 1. Cervantes in His Original Contexts
• 1. From Literary Painting to Marian Iconography: The Cult of Auristela in Cervantes’s Persiles y Sigismunda
• 2. “Dios Me Entiende y No Digo Más”: Nominalism, Humanism, and Modernity in Don Quixote
• 3. Obscene Onomastics and the Sheep-Army Episode of Don Quixote
• Part 2. Cervantes in Comparative Contexts
• 4. Befriending and Being Friends in Cervantes’s La Galatea (1585) and Sidney’s Arcadia (1593)
• 5. Cervantine Curiosity and the English Stage
• 6. QuixoNation: Unfinished Adaptations of Don Quixote in Cold War U.S. Cinema
• Part 3. Cervantes in Wider Cultural Contexts
• 7. Don Quixote and the American Culinary Arts
• 8. Cervantes, Reality Literacy, and Fundamentalism
• 9. Don Quixote and the Rise of Cyberorality
• Contributors
• Index