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.
examines Cervantes through the dual lenses of fiction and fictionalized history.
Edited by:
Howard Mancing,
Tatevik Gulamiryan
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Volume: 95
Dimensions:
Height: 231mm,
Width: 157mm,
Spine: 28mm
Weight: 560g
ISBN: 9781487558888
ISBN 10: 1487558880
Series: Toronto Iberic
Pages: 306
Publication Date: 16 April 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Fictional Lives of Miguel de Cervantes Howard Mancing and Tatevik Gyulamiryan Critical Perspectives 1. The First Two Centuries of Cervantes in Fiction Howard Mancing 2. Don Quixote Lurks Behind Miguel de Cervantes: The Portrait Tradition from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries Rachel Schmidt Cervantes in Fiction 3. “An Adventure of the Strangest Kind”: Dialogue across the Centuries in Paul Scheerbart’s Fantasy Novella Cervantes Jennifer Marston William 4. “La dolorosa gloria”: Cervantes’s Character in Manuel Mujica Láinez’s Bomarzo Yelsy Hernández Zamora and Nils Longueira Borrego 5. “Parecía reír el ave”: The Fictive Miguel de Cervantes’s Use of Constructive Anthropomorphism in “Las gallinas de Cervantes” by Ramón J. Sender Steven Wagschal 6. Fictionalizing Historical Cervantes: Stephen Marlowe’s The Death and Life of Miguel de Cervantes Joan Cammarata 7. Miguel de Cervantes, Biofictional Superhero Michael J. McGrath 8. A Certain Cervantes: Reimagining an American Cervantes in the French Graphic Novel Sarah Gordon 9. Ariel Dorfman’s Cautivos: Channelling the Search for Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation through Miguel de Cervantes Bradley J. Nelson Cervantes on Stage and on Screen 10. Cervantes through the Women in His Family: Pingüinas by Fernando Arrabal and Las Cervantas by Inma Chacón and José Ramón Fernández Aroa Algaba Granero 11. Time Travel Cervantes: Sci-Fi, Rivalry, and Theory of Mind in El ministerio del tiempo and Cervantes contra Lope Isabel Jaén and Julien Jacques Simon 12. A Bone of Contention: The Contested Exhumation of Miguel de Cervantes Carmen Moreno-Nuño 13. Towards the Creation of a Myth of a Hero: Cervantes, War, and Captivity Tatevik Gyulamiryan 14. Second(ary) Acts: Cervantes on the Page Edward H. Friedman Conclusion: Lo que quedó en el tintero Howard Mancing and Tatevik Gyulamiryan Appendix 1: A Cervantes Chronology Appendix 2: Works by Cervantes Appendix 3: Cervantes on Stage Appendix 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 Screen Contributors Index
Howard Mancing is a professor emeritus of Spanish at Purdue University. Tatevik Gyulamiryan is an associate professor of Spanish at Hope College.
Reviews for A Character Named Cervantes: On Screen, on Stage, and on the Page
“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.” -- Cory A. Reed, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Texas at Austin “In A Character Named Cervantes, the contributors are thoughtfully coordinated, demonstrating a deep knowledge of their respective topics within the framework of Cervantes research, supported by a current and relevant bibliography. Howard Mancing, a highly regarded researcher on Cervantes, imparts his distinct seal and style throughout the volume. This collection serves as a significant resource for cervantists – especially those focused on Cervantes's life and work – as well as researchers of the Spanish Golden Age, making a major contribution to the field.” -- Santiago A. López Navia, Professor of Spanish Philology, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
