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CSA Fall 2010.Indd Bulletin ofCervantes the Cervantes Society of America Volume xxx, Number 2 Fall, 2010 Bulletin of the CervantesCervantes Society of America The Cervantes Society of America President Howard Mancing (2010-2012) Vice-President Adrienne Martín (2010-2012) Managing Director Carolyn Nadeau (2009-2011) Communications Director Matthew Wyszynski (2009-2011) Executive Council Joan Cammarata (2009-2011) Maria Antonia GarcÉs (2009-2011) Ana Gómez Laguna (2010-2012) Michael J. McGrath (2010-2012) Charles Presberg (2009-2011) Cory Reed (2010-2012) Steve Wagschal (2009-2011) Amy Williamsen (2009-2011) CERVANTES: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America Editor: Tom Lathrop (2008-2010) Assistant to the Editor: Matthew Wyszynski (2009-2010) Book Review Editor: William H. Clamurro (2007-2010) Associate Editors Antonio Bernat Adrienne Martín Jean Canavaggio Vincent Martin Jaime Fernández Francisco Rico Edward H. Friedman George Shipley Luis Gómez Canseco Eduardo Urbina James Iffland Alison P. Weber Francisco Márquez Villanueva Diana de Armas Wilson Cervantes is official organ of the Cervantes Society of America. It publishes scholarly articles in English and Spanish on Cervantes’ life and works, reviews, and notes of interest to cervan- tistas. Twice yearly. Subscription to Cervantes is a part of membership in the Cervantes So- ciety of America, which also publishes a newsletter: $30.00 a year for individuals, $60.00 for institutions, $35.00 for couples, and $15.00 for students. Membership is open to all persons interested in Cervantes. For membership and subscription, send check in us dollars to Caro- lyn Nadeau, Department of Hispanic Studies, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL 61702. ([email protected]), Or google “Cervantes become a member” + I’m feeling lucky for the payment page. The journal style sheet is at http://www.h-net.org/~cervantes/bcsalist. htm. Manuscripts should be sent as an attachment to an e-mail message to the incoming Editor, Bruce R. Burningham ([email protected]). The Board reviews submissions without knowing who the author is. The author’s name, address, and e-mail adddress should be at the top of the manuscript and will be left off during the evaluation process. References to the author’s own work should be couched in the third person. Authors of articles must be members of the Society for at least the year that their article appears. Books for review should be sent to William H. Clamurro, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas 66081-5087 ([email protected]). Copyright © 2010 Cervantes Society of America Cervantes volume xxx, number 2 Table of Contents Greetings and farewell Tom Lathrop ....................................................................................................................5 Articles Una vez más sobre Vicente de la Rosa–Roca y Gante y Luna Helena Percas de Ponseti .........................................................................................9 Two Intriguing Matters James H. Montgomery ................................................................................................ 11 Don Quijote Turned 400. Did Anybody Notice? † Carroll B. Johnson ..................................................................................................15 David Lynch and the Dulcineated World Bruce R. Burningham .................................................................................................33 “Todo es morir, y acabóse la obra” Las muertes de don Quijote Francisco Layna Ranz .............................................................................................. 57 Mulier bona dicendi perita? Women and Rhetoric in Don Quijote Matthew A. Wyszynski ............................................................................................ 83 El receptor en el punto de mira: exordios encontrados en la primera parte de Don Quijote de la Mancha. Rafael Climent-Espino ........................................................................................... 101 The Function of Skepticism in Part I of Don Quijote Daniel Lorca .................................................................................................................115 Behn’s and Guillén de Castro’s adaptations of Miguel de Cervantes’s “El curioso impertinente.” Ángeles Tomé Rosales ............................................................................................149 Biography of a Bibliophile and Owner of a 1605 Quijote: Oscar Benjamín Cintas y Rodríguez (1887-1957) Jack Weiner ....................................................................................................................171 Reviews The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Michael J. McGrath ................................................................................................ 207 Francisco Vivar. Don Quijote frente a los caballeros de los tiempos modernos. Luis Gómez Canseco ............................................................................................... 209 Martín, Adrienne Laskier. An Erotic Philology of Golden Age Spain Joan F. Cammarata......................................................................................................213 Greetings and farewell Tom Lathrop n January of 2008, I had brunch with Fred de Armas, the CSA President, in Chicago, to discuss my being Editor of this Bulletin. The Society was in a bad situation because there had been no issues Iof the published for the previous two years. There were articles Bulletin lined up, but they needed to be organized, typeset, printed, bound, and mailed off. I took on the job and got those truant issues in the mail in six weeks. I mean, I make books in a hurry. That’s what I do. I also improved the ty- pography, and put some pretty striking full-color covers on theBulletin . I also did some things in the wings to make things run smoother and at less expense. The Bulletin is running well, it is up-to-date, and looks good. And now, because I have some urgent projects clamoring for attention, and because I am not forty years old anymore—and especially since I am run- ning out of Jack Davis illustrations for the cover—it is time to pass the torch on. The Society selected Bruce Burningham to replace me, and the Spring 2011 number, and those hopefully for a dozen more years, will be his. I would like to introduce Bruce to you all now. Bruce, these are the members of the Society; Members of the Society, this is Bruce. The Outgoing Editor Toots his Horn I am really pleased to announce that my translation of Don Quixote is going to replace Walter Starkie’s in the Signet Classics series on April 5 of 2011. Signet Classics is the perfect place for this book, in my opinion, and I am really delighted. On the other hand, Walter Starkie was my profes- sor at ucla, and it gives me an odd sensation to realize that my book is pushing his off the shelf, as well as Ed Friedman’s good introduction. I 5 6 Tom Lathrop Cervantes remember in 1964 when Starkie’s translation came out, there was a big stack of them in the ucla bookstore. I did considerable soul-searching about the expense of purchasing it, but I finally shelled out the dollar and a quarter that it cost. After all, Starkie was my prof. My same translation has already been published in England by OneWorld Classics. Well, not really the same, since it had to be homog- enized for the British audience. How “October 5, 2006” convinced me to produce a brand new, elegant edition, of Don Quijote Matthew Moore, then an m.a. student at the University of Delaware, told me a couple of years ago that there was an intrusive date in the middle of a sentence in my edition of the Quijote. Sure enough, on p. 247, line 4, it says: “…eran las provincias ni puertos de mar, yOctober 5, 2006 que así había…” You can look it up in the “Fourth Centenary Edition.” Previous editions obviously are free from this dopey error. I was horrified and in- credibly embarrassed. This was clearly the result of pushing the wrong button inadvertently while making a correction nearby on, ah, October 5, 2006. I thought I must do a new printing immediately to eliminate the stu- pid error, but on reflection I thought I should take my time and re-do everything to make a really Wonderful New Edition. I would use great new typography (as in this Bulletin), and take advantage of the photo- graphs and illustrations from the original version of the translation pub- lished in my Cervantes&Co. series. I think the photographs will help comprehension (the bulls of Guisando, the windmills of Consuegra, the bay of Lepanto, the Roman Pantheon) and the fifty-five illustrations by Jack Davis will be a delight. The revision is about half finished How I Invented Mini-notes. In the last number, I included a half page article about a nanolithograph of don Quixote and Sancho based on information provided by Félix Rico, through his father Francisco. Well, I didn’t know anything about nano stuff, so all I could do was to write a couple of paragraphs.Voilà! A mini-note! This time, Helena Percas de Ponseti had a small but fascinat- Volume 30.2 (2010) Greetings and farewell 7 ing point she wanted to make, as you’ll see in a moment, a full two pages long, quite a bit longer than my nano-article. And I also include a two- page article by Jim Montgomery about Part II of the Quijote, chapter 58, which supports the notion that Cervantes didn’t necessarily find out about Avellaneda until he was writing Chapter 59. Jim is a fellow transla- tor of Don Quixote (Indianapolis: Hackett,
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