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Category: Special Issue: Multicultural Cervantes

Bronze sculptures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, the Cervantes Monument, the Plaza de España, Madrid, Spain, December 5, 2008 | © Courtesy of Jorge Láscar/Flickr.

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The Refractions of Cervantes’ Fictional Figure of Don Quixote in Cinematic, Literary and Therapeutic Narratives Across Cultures

In this blog post, Juan de Dios Torralbo Caballero briefly introduces Multicultural Cervantes, a special issue of Open Cultural Studies published in 2017, based on his foreword, that examines the work of Miguel de...

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New Article: The Delusion of Enchantment in Miguel Cervantes’s Don Quixote and William Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream

 Krisztina Kodó Published Online: 2017-12-29 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0049 Abstract The aim of the present article is to investigate the conceptual framework of magic and enchantment in the works of Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra and William Shakespeare. The...

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New Article: The Politics of Genre and Gender in Tabitha Gilman Tenney’s Female Quixotism

Dragoş Ivana Published Online: 2017-12-22 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0043 Abstract The present article focuses on transatlantic female quixotism, as enacted by Tabitha Tenney’s heroine, Dorcasina Sheldon. I argue that quixotism can be read as an interface between the...

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New Article: Don Quixote, Sweded by Michel Gondry in Be Kind Rewind (2008)

Erin K. Hogan Published Online: 2017-12-29 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0042 Abstract In the spirit of poetic license from Be Kind Rewind (2008), this article argues that Michel Gondry’s film “swedes,” its playful neologism for ersatz remaking of Hollywood...

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Cervantes, the Journey, and What it Tells Us About Becoming a Writer

Lania Knight Published Online: 2017-12-14 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0036 Abstract The article traces the notion of empathy in fiction writing and how Cervantes’s treatment of characters in Don Quixote initiated a tradition which is ongoing in literature even...

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Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote and John Barth’s The Sot-Weed Factor: A Deconstructive Readin

Javier Martín-Párraga Published Online: 2017-12-07 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0030 Abstract Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote is one of the earliest and most influential novels in the history of Western literature. John Barth’s The Sot-Weed Factor, published almost three...

Quixote Winery. Stags Leap Ranch. Architect - Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Napa Valley, California, USA, February 24, 2011 | © Courtesy of Sarah_Ackerman.

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New Article: Faulkner’s Quixotic Picaresque: Carnival, Tricksters, and Rhizomatic Intertextuality in The Reivers

David E. S. Beek Published Online: 2017-11-24 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0024. Abstract Faulkner’s The Reivers exemplifies the Quixotic Picaresque-a conflation of the narrative modes exhibited in Lazarillo de Tormes and Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote. This...

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Don Quixote’s Quixotic Trauma Therapy: A Reassessment of Cervantes’s Canonical Novel and Trauma Studies

Suzanne LaLonde Published Online: 2017-11-24 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0022 Abstract This article presents a non-canonical reading of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s canonical novel Don Quixote. Using a trauma theory lens (from both cultural studies and psychiatry) to understand...