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Edward J. Dudley Bulletin of the CervantesCervantes Society of America The Cervantes Society of America President Frederick De Armas (2007-2010) Vice-President Howard Mancing (2007-2010) Secretary-Treasurer Theresa Sears (2007-2010) Executive Council Bruce Burningham (2007-2008) Charles Ganelin (Midwest) Steve Hutchinson (2007-2008) William Childers (Northeast) Rogelio Miñana (2007-2008) Adrienne Martin (Pacific Coast) Carolyn Nadeau (2007-2008) Ignacio López Alemany (Southeast) Barbara Simerka (2007-2008) Christopher Weimer (Southwest) Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America Editor: Tom Lathrop (2008-2010) Managing Editor: Fred Jehle (2007-2010) Book Review Editor: William H. Clamurro (2007-2010) Associate Editors Antonio Bernat Adrienne Martin Jean Canavaggio Vincent Martin Jaime Fernández Francisco Rico Edward H. Friedman George Shipley Luis Gómez Canseco Eduardo Urbina James Iffland Alison P. 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Copyright © 2009 Cervantes Society of America volumeCervantes xxix, number 1 Table of Contents Articles “Digo que yo he compuesto un libro intitulado El ingenioso hidalgo de la mancha” Fernando Bouza and Francisco Rico ��������������������������������������������������������������13 Don Quijote and the Art of Laughing at Oneself Michael Scham .......................................................................................................31 Yo sé quién soy’: How don Quijote Does Things with Words (Part I, chaps. 1-5) Charles Oriel ........................................................................................................57 Early Modern Illusions of Perfect Male Friendship: The Case of Cervantes’s “El curioso impertinente” Juan Pablo Gil-Osle .............................................................................................85 Cervantes’s Laboratory: The Thought Experiment of “El curioso impertinente” Alison E. Krueger ................................................................................................117 Societal change and language history in Cervantes’entremeses : The status of the Golden Agevos Jeremy King ........................................................................................................... 167 Don Quijote, Felipe II y la tecnología de la escritura Jesús Botello ........................................................................................................ 197 Did Cervantes Stutter? John Beusterien ..................................................................................................209 A propósito de un “descuido cervantino”: la alternancia yangüeses/gallegos en el Quijote Rafael Barroso Cabrera and Jorge Morín De Pablos ...........................221 Reviews Friedman, Edward H. Cervantes in the Middle: Realism and Reality in the Spanish Novel from Lazarillo de Tormes to Niebla Anne J. Cruz ...........................................................................................................231 Anthony Close. A Companion to Don Quixote Michael Scham .................................................................................................... 233 José Manuel Lucía Megías. Leer el Quijote en imágenes. Hacia una teoría de los modelos iconográficos Rachel Schmidt ................................................................................................... 237 José R. Cartagena Calderón, Masculinidades en obras: El drama de la hombría en la España imperial John Beusterien .................................................................................................. 238 Emilio Martínez Mata. Cervantes comenta el Quijote Michael Scham ....................................................................................................242 Juan Carlos González Faraco. Il cavaliere errante. La poetica educativa di Don Chisciotte Luis Gómez Canseco ........................................................................................ 245 Edward Dudley At Ed Dudley’s retirement party in 1999, I remarked to him that I had known him longer than anyone else at that gathering excepting his wife. He had to agree. I was his student at ucla in the Spring of 1964 in a course called “Spanish Literature 1850-1898.” The Galdós novel scheduled to be read by us was Fortunata y Jacinta. (I remember thinking: “I hope it’s a short one, like Marianela.” ) I was at that party because it was among the festivities in connec- tion with the symposium given at suny Buffalo in his honor. Some of the papers from that symposium, and other solicited ones, ap- peared in a Festschrift published in my Juan de la Cuesta—Hispanic Monographs series. This book,Cervantes for the 21st Century, is popu- lated by a Who’s Who of Cervantists who wrote articles to show their appreciation for Ed’s contribution to our field. Ed Dudley’s major contribution to the field, his magnum opus without a doubt, is his award-winning The Endless Text. Don Quixote and the Hermeneutics of Romance. Since it was published at the end of the century, as one reviews the Cervantine scholarship from that hundred-year period, it can safely be said that it was one of the ten best books about Don Quijote in the 20th century. It was also pub- lished at the end of Dudley’s active career. With a lifetime of study— in Spanish literature, in English literature, and in Comparative Literature—he put everything together into this groundbreaking work. Certainly he forsook other projects over the years to devote his scholarly attention to this book. 5 6 Edward Dudley Cervantes John Cull ends his on-line review for the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain by stating: “Dudley’s study is a provocative and challenging reading which proves at times to be both controversial and brilliantly insightful.” And Nicholas Spadaccini, in his review publsihed in this Bulletin (18.2 (1998): 148- 50.) begins by saying: “This beautifully-written, erudite book is the work of a distinguished comparatist who combines the best tools that philological scholarship has to offer with sophisticated contem- porary theories of reading.” If there are csa members who do not know that book yet, they should go immediately to their university library—it’s in the colleci- tont—and check it out. What follows is an obituary written by Edward Wescott, a short appreciation of Ed Dudley by Geoffrey Ribbans, and a listing of Dudley’s pubished works. Tom Lathrop Edward J. Dudley July 18, 1926 — July 21, 2008 Edward J. Dudley, Ph. D., Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature and longtime chairman of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the State University of New York at Buffalo, died from the effects of Parkinson’s disease July 21 in Sanford University of South Dakota Medical Center, Sioux Falls. He was 82. Born in St. Paul, Minn. in 1926, Ed Dudley joined the Navy at 17 and served in the final years of World War II. After the war, he re- turned to the University of Minnesota on the gi Bill and earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English literature. He traveled ex- tensively in Europe and South America during the early 1950s, work- ing as an English language professor, before teaching Spanish at St. John’s University in Minnesota and earning his doctorate in Spanish literature in 1963. In 1959, he married Patricia Hayes, a concert pianist. Volume 29.1 (2009) An Appreciation 7 Dr. Dudley, a scholar on the works of Miguel de Cer-vantes, taught Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Pittsburgh before joining the faculty of suny at Buffalo in 1974 At sunyab, Dr. Dudley served as chairman of the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese and then the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. He stepped down in 1983 to return to the classroom. He also was the director of the Council on International Studies from 1981 to 1983. Edward Dudley retired from teaching in 1999, at which time his life work was honored with “Convergencias Hispánicas,” an in- ternational Hispanic studies symposium sponsored by the