Character Named Cervantes

On Screen, on Stage, and on the Page

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Howard Mancing, Tatevik Gulamiryan, Tatevik Gyulamiryan

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Miguel de Cervantes, writer of Don Quixote, has frequently been portrayed in fictionalized contexts across various mediums. In A Character Named Cervantes, Howard Mancing and Tatevik Gyulamiryan explore how Cervantes’s life is depicted in biographies and fiction and how he, as a (bio)fictional character, contributes to our understanding of reality and fiction, fact and invention, history and imagination, and above all, our perceptions of these concepts.The book reveals that Cervantes’s life was unlike anyone else’s. Characterized by an array of extraordinary experiences – both triumphant and tumultuous, adventurous and misfortunate, impassioned and disillusioned – his life events mirror the quixotic spirit he famously imbued in his iconic character. Despite the wealth of documented events, a lot about Cervantes remains uncovered, which allows for human imagination, interpretation, and creation to intervene, attempting to provide a more comprehensive biography. The book highlights how Cervantes’s life has inspired multiple interpretations and recreations by historians, biographers, and novelists alike. It emphasizes the crucial role of human imagination in the crafting of biographies, particularly within literary and scholarly traditions. Ultimately, A Character Named Cervantes examines Cervantes through the dual lenses of fiction and fictionalized history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-04-16
Mått157 x 231 x 28 mm
Vikt560 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieToronto Iberic
Antal sidor306
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487558888

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Fictional Lives of Miguel de CervantesHoward Mancing and Tatevik GyulamiryanCritical Perspectives1. The First Two Centuries of Cervantes in FictionHoward Mancing2. Don Quixote Lurks Behind Miguel de Cervantes: The Portrait Tradition from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First CenturiesRachel SchmidtCervantes in Fiction3. "An Adventure of the Strangest Kind": Dialogue across the Centuries in Paul Scheerbart’s Fantasy Novella CervantesJennifer Marston William4. "La dolorosa gloria": Cervantes’s Character in Manuel Mujica Láinez’s BomarzoYelsy Hernández Zamora and Nils Longueira Borrego5. "Parecía reír el ave": The Fictive Miguel de Cervantes’s Use of Constructive Anthropomorphism in "Las gallinas de Cervantes" by Ramón J. SenderSteven Wagschal6. Fictionalizing Historical Cervantes: Stephen Marlowe’s The Death and Life of Miguel de CervantesJoan Cammarata7. Miguel de Cervantes, Biofictional SuperheroMichael J. McGrath8. A Certain Cervantes: Reimagining an American Cervantes in the French Graphic NovelSarah Gordon9. Ariel Dorfman’s Cautivos: Channelling the Search for Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation through Miguel de CervantesBradley J. NelsonCervantes on Stage and on Screen10. Cervantes through the Women in His Family: Pingüinas by Fernando Arrabal and Las Cervantas by Inma Chacón and José Ramón FernándezAroa Algaba Granero11. Time Travel Cervantes: Sci-Fi, Rivalry, and Theory of Mind in El ministerio del tiempo and Cervantes contra LopeIsabel Jaén and Julien Jacques Simon12. A Bone of Contention: The Contested Exhumation of Miguel de CervantesCarmen Moreno-Nuño13. Towards the Creation of a Myth of a Hero: Cervantes, War, and CaptivityTatevik Gyulamiryan14. Second(ary) Acts: Cervantes on the PageEdward H. FriedmanConclusion: Lo que quedó en el tinteroHoward Mancing and Tatevik GyulamiryanAppendix 1: A Cervantes ChronologyAppendix 2: Works by CervantesAppendix 3: Cervantes on StageAppendix 4: Cervantes in the Novel (more than 15,000 words) Appendix 5: Cervantes in Short Fiction (fewer than 15,000 words)Appendix 6: Cervantes on ScreenContributorsIndex

“A Character Named Cervantes presents a diverse collection of academic essays, each well-written, carefully edited, and grounded in foundational scholarship. This volume successfully documents the many fictional representations of Cervantes as a character, analysing several of these in critical detail, and demonstrating the fundamental importance of Cervantes’s influence on seemingly endless genres of literary fiction and media, across time, and in countries throughout the world. There is no comparable book on the market that investigates Cervantes as a character in this way, and the pervasiveness of Cervantine representations offers readers astounding revelations, inviting a delightful process of discovery with each successive essay.”