Don Quixote: The Re-Accentuation of the World’s Greatest Literary Hero

309 Pages·2017·3.403 MB·English

by  Slav N. Gratchev, Howard Mancing

Don Quixote

Don Quixote
The Re-accentuation of the
World’s Greatest Literary Hero
Edited by Slav N. Gratchev
and Howard Mancing
Published by Bucknell University Press
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Howard Mancing and Slav N. Gratchev
Part I: Re-accentuation: Theoretical Introduction
1 On Re-accentuation, Adaptation, and Imitation of
Don Quixote 11
Tatevik Gyulamiryan
Part II: Imagery and Ideology
2 Don Quixote Re-depicted 25
Eduardo Urbina and Fernando González Moreno
3 Don Quixote in the Rise of Modern Novel: The Satirical
Interpretation 39
Emilio Martínez Mata
4 Don Quixote and the Chivalric Ideal in Classics Illustrated
Comics (1941–1971) 53
Ricardo Castells
5 A Horse of a Different Color: Salvador Dalí and the
Re-imagining of Clavileño 65
S. Alleyn Smythe
6 Image Not Found: Portraiture, Identity, and the Future
of Cervantismo 79
Stephen Hessel
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Part III: Literature
7 Borges and the Hermeneutics of the Novel 95
J. A. Garrido Ardila
8 World War and the Novel: Responding to Don Quixote
in 1914 and 1934 107
Rachel Schmidt
9 The Don Quixotes of Science Fiction 123
Howard Mancing
Part IV: Film
10 The Art of Re-accentuation: Don Quixote by
Grigori Kozintsev 141
Slav N. Gratchev
11 Surviving the Hollywood Blacklist: Waldo Salt’s
Adaptation of Don Quixote 153
William Childers
12 Crouching Squire, Hidden Madman: Ah Gan’s
Don Quixote and Postmodern China 181
Bruce Burningham
13 Amélie as Re-accentuation of Cervantes 193
Jonathan Wade
14 Extracting the Essence of Don Quixote for a Puppet Film 205
Steven Ritz-Barr
Part V: Theater and Television
15 The Spanish Knight Among the Soviet People: Dramatic
Re-accentuations of Don Quixote as a Doomed Performer 221
Margarita Marinova and Scott Pollard
16 A Russian Lancelot and His Don Quixote 237
Victor Fet
Part VI: Don Quixote in The New World
17 The Visionary’s Quixote: What Does Quixote Mean
for Businesspeople? 253
Roy H. Williams
Bibliography 267
Index 283
About the Editors 297
List of Illustrations
CHAPTER 2: DON QUIXOTE RE-DEPICTED
Figure 2.1. Charles-Antoine Coypel/Charles-Nicolas Cochin
père. Don Quichotte est delivré de sa folie par la
Sagesse (Paris: Louis Surugue, c. 1728–1730, burin
engraving) 27
Figure 2.2. Robert Smirke/Francis Engleheart. Don Quixote’s
Penance on the Mountain (London: T. Cadell and
W. Davies, 1818, burin engraving) 30
Figure 2.3. George Cruikshank. The Don & The Duenna
(London: E. Wilson, 1833, etching) 33
Figure 2.4. William Heath Robinson, The Bachelor Sampson
Carrasco (London: Sands & Co., 1897, process) 34
Figure 2.5. Savva Brodsky, Don Quixote Defeated by the Knight
of the White Moon (Moscow: Molodaia Guardia,
1976, process) 36
CHAPTER 5: A HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR:
SALVADOR DALÍ AND THE RE-IMAGINING OF CLAVILEÑO
Figure 5.1. Salvador Dalí. Clavilegnio (Clavileño) (c. 1972,
lithograph on paper) 68
Figure 5.2. Hieronymus Bosch. Christ Child with a Walking
Frame (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, c.
1480s, oil on panel) 69
Figure 5.3. Pablo Picasso. Don Quixote (c. 1955, vectorization
of Picasso’s 1955 drawing Don Quixote) 73
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Figure 5.4. Tony Fitzpatrick. H Is for Horse, from Max and
Gaby’s Alphabet (c. 2000, four-color etching with
aquatint on paper) 76
CHAPTER 11: SURVIVING THE HOLLYWOOD BLACKLIST: WALDO
SALT’S ADAPTATION OF DON QUIXOTE
Figure 11.1. Waldo Salt. Don Quixote and Sancho (Watercolor,
circa 1970—1980) 171
Figure 11.2. Waldo Salt. Portrait of Don Quixote (Drawing,
circa 1970—1980) 172
Figure 11.3. Waldo Salt. Don Quixote and Dulcinea (Drawing,
circa 1970—1980) 173
CHAPTER 14: EXTRACTING THE ESSENCE
OF DON QUIXOTE FOR A PUPPET FILM
Figure 14.1. Luis Lopez photo and design (QUIXOTE film by
Classics in Miniature®, 2010) 206
Figure 14.2. Photo by Hoku Uchiyama. Don Quixote and
Sancho See Giants and Windmills (QUIXOTE film
by Classics in Miniature®, 2010) 209
Figure 14.3. Photo by Hoku Uchiyama. Don Quixote Meets
His Dulcinea (QUIXOTE film by Classics in
Miniature®, 2010) 210
Figure 14.4. Photo by Hoku Uchiyama. Don Quixote Dreams
He Saves a Maiden (QUIXOTE film by Classics in
Miniature®, 2010) 211
Figure 14.5. Hoku Uchiyama. Approaching a Giant at Full
Gallop (QUIXOTE film by Classics in Miniature®,
2010) 214
Figure 14.6. Photos by Hoku Uchiyama. Maesa Pedro’s Puppet
Show (QUIXOTE film by Classics in Miniature®,
2010) 215
Figure 14.7. Photo by Hoku Uchiyama. A Forlorn Don Quixote
(QUIXOTE film by Classics in Miniature®, 2010) 216
Acknowledgments
We would like to express our thanks to West Virginia Humanities Coun-
cil, which provided financial support for this important project. Also, we
would like to thank the dean of the College of Liberal Arts of Marshall
University, Dr. Robert Bookwalter, for his continued encouragement and
sincere support of this initiative.
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