Journal Article

Editor's Note

Burningham, Bruce R

2015

Overview

[...]again given the general prominence of Don Quixote in the field, we did not wish to delay the publication (by at least a year, if not more) of those articles submitted to the journal by scholars working on Cervantes's other works. Through an examination of the archetypal figures of the \"strange woman\" and the \"virtuous woman\" in the Bible and the Qur'an, Larsen argues that the character of Zoraida in the \"Captive's Tale\" is part of a long line of \"strange women\" that connects ancient figures like Tamar and Rahab and Zulayja to such contemporary figures as activist and novelist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Following Larsen's article, we offer five more articles dedicated to Don Quixote: Rachel Schmidt examines definitions of \"ingenio\" within the context of Spain's early modern American adventure; Daniel Lorca plumbs the epistemological depths of Cervantes's literary creation of Sancho Panza; Javier Jiménez Belmonte explores the influence of Don Quixote on the Neapolitan writer Gherardo Marone; John Cull examines the connection between Don Quixote and the work of the early modern humanist, Alexio Venegas; and Verónica Azcue Castillón traces the impact of Don Quixote on the theatrical work of Spanish exiles in the wake of the Spanish Civil War.

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Subject: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616) / Hirsi Ali, Ayaan