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The Disaster Artists: Tommy Wiseau and the Value of Trashing Cervantes
This essay proposes a reconsideration of ingenio lego by comparing Miguel de Cervantes and Don Quixote with the director Tommy Wiseau and his film The Room, considered one of the worst films in history. Through an analysis of both, a nuanced understanding of authorial intent and an audience's capacity to alter the meaning of a work emerges, suggesting the possible fruitful perspective of considering an author or a creator as both a \"genius\" and \"fool\" simultaneously. The purpose of this analysis is to challenge and complement the present dominant view of Miguel de Cervantes as a \"genius\" author.
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Celestial Cervantes: Mauricio's Astrology, the Heavens, and the Search for Terrestrial Order
What does Mauricio’s astrology say about the insights Cervantes offers us in Persiles y Sigismunda? By briefly exploring the breadth and depth of early modern astrology, I hope to better frame, or perhaps unframe, Mauricio for the contemporary reader and analyze how he serves as a foil to other “magic” users and his fellow travelers in Persiles y Sigismunda. I will also attempt to nuance our understanding of astrology’s role in the seventeenth century Spain while considering the long, multifaceted paradigm shift in magical and scientific thinking.
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Homelands: Reevaluating Traditional Approaches to Cervantes Through Alternative Biographical Interpretation
The purpose of this essay is to compare Cervantes's time as a captive in Algiers to the narrative presented in the television series Homeland, which includes a character who also spends time as a captive in Muslim lands, and who eventually becomes sympathetic to the project of his captors. Nevertheless, the purpose of this essay is not to prove or even earnestly suggest that Cervantes was a sixteenth/ seventeenth century version of a sleeper cell terrorist but instead take a reading of Cervantes's life and work by a fascist ideologue to an extreme in order to achieve two things: 1) provide a framework for \"negative\" reactions to Cervantes's biographical representations within the strictures of the contemporary field and the historical context of Golden Age Spain; while 2) shedding light on how political and cultural orientations impact literary interpretation despite efforts to ensure they do not. This project is thus a creative biographical re interpretation of Cervantes's biography coupled with a creative literary analysis of Homeland. My goal here is to advance the metacritical point that Cervantes's biography and works are generally read in a \"positive\" fashion, and consequently avoid possible \"negative\" interpretations of his sparse biography and murky prose. Yet, both his legacy and the inherent ambiguous and contradictive nature of his writing seem to demand (re)assessment of his life and work from every possible angle, no matter how unflattering and incongruous to contemporary attitudes.
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Celestial Cervantes: Mauricio’s Astrology, the Heavens, and the Search for Terrestrial Order
Mauricio, el astrólogo de Persiles y Sigismunda, es uno de los personajes más enigmáticos de la última novela de Cervantes. El contraste entre su fe y su ciencia adivinadora presenta una imagen paradójica de la interacción de estas dos cosmovisiones. Al analizar a Mauricio, las creencias de la Iglesia y la cultura europea con respecto a la astrología judiciaria, y la presentación de la magia en las obras de Cervantes, este artículo pretende situar a Mauricio de manera más matizada para que el lector pueda entender la complejidad de los debates sobre la religión, la ciencia, y la magia en el contexto cervantino.
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