scholarly journals „Hiszpania! Jakież czarodziejskie słowo, jakże uroczo brzmi ten wyraz!" Obraz Hiszpanii na przełomie XIX i XX wieku w polskich listach z podróży

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 131-146
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Ewelina Mikinka
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
Mass Tourism ◽  
Terra Incognita ◽  
La Mancha ◽  
Spanish Women ◽  
Modern Mass ◽  
Rich History

Modern Polish ideas about the Iberian Peninsula can often be summarised in slogans: azure sky, beautiful women, bullfighting, Don Quixote from La Mancha. Has this image of Spain been with us for centuries, or has it been “produced” by modern mass tourism? The aim of this article is to analyse travel texts from the 19th and 20th centuries describing journeys around the Iberian Peninsula and an attempt to answer the question of what Spain looks like in the eyes of Poles deprived of their own statehood. Is it terra incognita, an exotic country with a rich history, in which travellers find a reflection in architecture and customs, fascinated by Madrid, Barcelona, and Salamanca? Or maybe it evokes disappointment? The article compares travel letters by four Polish travellers and historians: Aleksander Hirschberg, Adolf Pawiński, Józef Wawel-Louis, and Stanisław Starża. The analysis of the letters was divided into thematic blocks: historical Polish-Spanish relations, perceptions and impressions, opinions about Spaniards and Spanish women, and cultural controversies (corrida, cockfighting).

The Oxford Handbook of Cervantes

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra ◽  
The United States ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Miguel De Cervantes ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
La Mancha ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Multiple Languages

Although best known the world over for his masterpiece novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha, published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, the antics of the would-be knight-errant and his simple squire only represent a fraction of the trials and tribulations, both in the literary world and in society at large, of this complex man. Poet, playwright, soldier, slave, satirist, novelist, political commentator, and literary outsider, Cervantes achieved a minor miracle by becoming one of the rarest of things in the early modern world of letters: an international best-seller during his lifetime, with his great novel being translated into multiple languages before his death in 1616. The principal objective of the Oxford Handbook of Cervantes is to create a resource in English that provides a fully comprehensive overview of the life, works, and influences of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616). This volume contains seven sections, exploring in depth Cervantes’s life and how the trials, tribulations, and hardships endured influenced his writing. Cervantistas from numerous countries, including the United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland, the United States, Canada, and France offer their expertise with the most up-to-date research and interpretations to complete this wide-ranging, but detailed, compendium of a writer not known for much other than his famous novel outside of the Spanish-speaking world. This handbook explores his famous novel Don Quixote, his other prose works, his theatrical output, his poetry, his sources, influences, and contemporaries, and finally reception of his works over the last four hundred years.

Don Quixote, Part I (1605)

2021 ◽  
pp. 86-117
Author(s):  
Edwin Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Don Quixote ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Second Best ◽  
La Mancha ◽  
The World ◽  
Insight Into

When it first appeared in 1605, Cervantes’s great novel Don Quixote de la Mancha became an international sensation. This chapter follows the chronology of the plot in a critical manner providing the reader with important insight into why Don Quixote has become the second best-selling book of all time. Including the famous scenes of the windmill, the liquidation of Don Quixote’s library, the funeral of Grisóstomo and redemption of Marcela, Ginés de Pasamonte and the galley slaves, El curioso impertinente, the famous tale of Cardenio the star-crossed lover, and a commentary on the role of drama and novels of chivalry in society, Don Quixote, Part One sets the hero and his trusty country squire against the world at large. This chapter explores its deep cultural significance and answers the question of whether or not it is merely a ‘funny book’.

scholarly journals El mundo mítico de la ‘Cueva de Montesinos’ en la música para Don Quixote de Roberto Gerhard

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Paloma Ortiz-de-Urbina Sobrino
Keyword(s):  
Don Quixote ◽  
Miguel De Cervantes ◽  
Don Quijote ◽  
La Mancha

El presente trabajo estudia el modo en el que el compositor Roberto Gerhard pone en música, en su ballet Don Quixote (1950), la novela Don Quijote de la Mancha de Miguel de Cervantes, concretamente el enigmático episodio de ‘La Cueva de Montesinos’, contenido en la segunda parte de la obra. Se examina cómo el músico trata de producir en el oyente el mismo efecto –ambiguo y contradictorio, mezcla de lo cómico, lo absurdo o lo grotesco– que se genera en el lector de este desconcertante capítulo, poblado de figuras míticas de diferentes épocas, que conviven con un protagonista real. Para ello se analizan, en primer lugar, los diferentes planos míticos y legendarios utilizados por Cervantes; se repasan, en segundo lugar, las fuentes literarias de las que bebe el autor para crear dichos relatos míticos y se estudian, finalmente, los originales medios de los que se vale Roberto Gerhard para llevar a la música el magistral episodio cervantino.

scholarly journals El Quijote en la calle: historia de un espectáculo

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Serrano Sánchez de Menchén
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
Don Quijote ◽  
Ciudad Real ◽  
La Mancha ◽  
Live Music ◽  
Street Theatre ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Town ◽  
Unusual Type

Don Quijote en la Calle (Don Quixote on the street) is a popular show that takes place in Argamasilla de Alba (Ciudad Real). It is currently performed during the town’s Cervantine Days (April-June). At the moment, around 150 locals take part in this show, bringing the adventures of Don Quixote to life: horses, live music, dances from the Golden Age, fireworks, etc. In doing so, this unusual type of show achieves a unique staging. Heir to Estampas del Quijote (a street theatre that was formerly performed in the town), the Town Council of Argamasilla de Alba has applied to the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha for Don Quijote en la Calle to be declared worthy of ‘Regional Tourist Interest’.

Don Quixote, Part II (1615)

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-148
Author(s):  
Edwin Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Don Quixote ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
La Mancha ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sancho Panza ◽  
Literary Phenomenon

A critical commentary on the major episodes of Don Quixote Part Two, this chapter shows how the pivotal episode of Dulcinea’s alleged enchantment (DQ II. 10) brings about a transformation in the character of each of the protagonists and in the nature of their relations, as well as providing a new unifying principle for the episodic narrative. Cervantes’s parody of the books of chivalry reaches its climax at the Duke’s palace, where an inversion occurs in the relationship between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza that will lead to the decline and fall of the would-be hero. In this second part, Cervantes’s modulations of comedy and pathos fashion the paradoxical madness of the Knight of La Mancha into an unprecedented literary phenomenon that would come to resonate powerfully with modern readers.

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