Theory, praxis and puppet plays in Cervantes and Pirandello

Constantly throughout his literary career, the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello (1867- 1936) had always seen in Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) a precursory inspiration of his own poetics. This paper delves into the complex nature of this literary influence, and particularly into the nature of the theoretical premonitions which Cervantes’ Don Quixote has pragmatically bequeathed to Pirandello’s oeuvre. After a brief glance at various testimonies on Cervantes enunciated by Pirandello himself during his lifetime, this study tackles the meaning of two emblematic passages in Pirandello’s long essay L’umorismo, in which he traces the development of his very own poetics by linking it to Cervantes’ comic element in Don Quixote. Finally, the paper shall embark on a textual and thematic analysis of two emblematic puppet play episodes portrayed in Don Quixote and in Pirandello’s novel The Late Mattia Pascal.peer-reviewe

Guide to the classics: Don Quixote, the world’s first novel – and one of the best

Completed by Cervantes when he was in prison, Don Quixote is the tale of a man so passionate about reading he leaves home to live the life of his fictional heroes

Los retratos de Miguel de Cervantes: de la búsqueda del hombre al triunfo del mito

RESUMEN: Miguel de Cervantes tiene su propio imaginario, pero ¿a quién corresponden los retratos que a lo largo del tiempo se han ido descubriendo de Miguel de Cervantes? Partiendo del retrato en palabras del propio Cervantes en el prólogo de las Novelas ejemplares (1613), se hace un recorrido por los distintos retratos que desde 1738 se han presentado como la verdadera imagen del autor complutense. Un recorrido sobre la imagen de Miguel de Cervantes que ha dado forma visual al mito, superando al hombre que vivió durante el Siglo de Oro. PALABRAS CLAVES: Cervantes; retrato; iconografía cervantina; Juan de Jáuregui; falsificaciones visuales.ABSTRACT: Miguel de Cervantes has his own gallery of images that have come down to posterity, but who painted the portraits of Miguel de Cervantes that have been discovered over the course of time? Beginning with the verbal self-portrait of himself that Cervantes crafts in the prologue of his Novelas ejemplares (1613), this study traces the route of the different portraits sine 1738 that have been claimed as the true image of the author from Alcalá de Henares. It is a path that follows along the character known as Miguel de Cervantes, which has imposed itself on the myth, taking precedence over the man who lived during the Golden Age. KEYWORDS: Cervantes; Portrait; Cervantine Iconography; Juan de Jáuregui; visual falsifications

Cervantes in Perspective

Cervantes in Perspective brings together original essays on Miguel de Cervantes´s life and literature written by nine significant Cervantes scholars. Readers and scholars of Early Modern Spanish literature will find a discussion of current theories of fiction, the latest analyses of individual texts, new comparative approaches to Cervantes, and unique studies on the impact of Cervantine fiction on both early modern Spain and contemporary U.S. culture. Cervantes in Perspective also marks the first time that recent scholarly approaches emerging from the annual Chicago Cervantes Symposium have been publishedhttps://lib.dr.iastate.edu/language_books/1013/thumbnail.jp

Cervantes

Si la intución de vincular a Shakespeare con el mundo de los emblemas fue rastreada por la crítica anglosajona desde antiguo, dando lugar a estudios extensos y minuciosos, no ha sido así con la obra de Cervantes. De hecho, no podemos hablar en rigor de unos primeros —y aún tímidos— análisis de este enlace hasta principios de los años ochenta del siglo pasado, y habrá que esperar a que acabe prácticamente el siglo para contar con una mínima bibliografía dedicada. Sin duda, la multiplicación de estudios coincide con el nuevo interés que gana en nuestro país la literatura de emblemas a impulsos de la Sociedad Española de Emblemática, de sus congresos y las publicaciones de sus miembros. Pero hay que destacar que, aún así, y hasta hoy, la figura de Cervantes se presenta escurridiza para la consolidación de esta bibliografía

Conversations on Contextuality

In the form of a dialogue (imitating in style Lakatos's Proof and Refutation), this chapter presents and explains the main points of the approach to contextuality dubbed Contextuality-by-Default.Comment: Opening chapter (pp. 1-22) in "Contextuality from Quantum Physics to Psychology," edited by E. Dzhafarov, S. Jordan, R. Zhang, V. Cervantes. New Jersey: World Scientific Press, 201