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• Scenes of Cervantes in Chile: the Case of «Memorias de un perro escritas por su propia pata» by Juan Rafael Allende

  J. Rivas

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 1

  
  

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  It is possible to recognize the influence of Cervantes in Spanish America from the moment its works arrived to our continent in the XVII century. The Chilean literature is not out of that process: in the literary field one of the highlights is the writer Juan Rafael Allende, from mid XIX Century, who’s novel Memorias de un perro escritas por su propia pata (1893) shows a clear inspiration on one of the Exemplary novels titled Coloquio de los perros. Rafael Allende’s work, narrated according to the XVII century picaresque novel principles, tells about the life’s ups and downs of a dog named Rompecadenas, who constantly changes owners and get a good number of experiences that allow it to make its performance as a pícaro even better and, by the way, to display a series of pictures of Chilean social reality.

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  It is possible to recognize the influence of Cervantes in Spanish America from the moment its works arrived to our continent in the XVII century. The Chilean literature is [...]

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• Table of contents, Hipogrifo, 3.1, 2015

  Á. Baraibar

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (1), 1

  
  

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• Two bibliographical projects of Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert

  A. Wigger

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (1), 1

  
  

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  Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert reached the number 100 of its prestigious book series “Bibilioteca Áurea Hispánica” with a volume dedicated to the Sacramental Plays of Calderón and it has also recently published La Obra Completa of Mateo Alemán, first edition of the Complete Works of the sevillian author.

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  Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert reached the number 100 of its prestigious book series “Bibilioteca Áurea Hispánica” with a volume dedicated to the Sacramental Plays [...]

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• Santa Teresa de Jesús in Romania. Interview with Christian Tămaș, the Translator into Romanian of St.Teresa’s Works

  A. Sandu-Andries

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (1), 1

  
  

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  Saint Theresa of Ávila lived in Spain, during the complicated XVIth century. A life of obedience, dedicated to writing and to the foundation of Carmelite monasteries. The present interview (a modest homage upon the celebration of 500 years since the birth of the saint) allows us to approach the life and works of a top rank personality of the Occidental religious literature from the perspective of a translator, more precisely from the perspective of the man who transposed her words into Romanian. A specialist in Arabic language and literature, a novelist and translator from Italian, Catalan, French, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Irish and English, Christian Tămaș published, between 1994 and 1998, four of the main works of the Spanish writer, being the first to present her thoughts and ideas to the Romanian reader at that time. A lucid witness of times when openness and intelectual curiosity were highly valued, the translator evokes certain aspects regarding the way in which she has been perceived in Romania, pinpointing the difficulty of the Theresian text and speaking of the role of religious translation, the present state of the act of reading, the lights and shadows of a society —the modern day, Romanian one.

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  Saint Theresa of Ávila lived in Spain, during the complicated XVIth century. A life of obedience, dedicated to writing and to the foundation of Carmelite monasteries. [...]

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• The Duchess and Altisidora: Two Enemies of Dulcinea

  A. Iriarte

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 1

  
  

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  Don Quixote creates Dulcinea of El Toboso, the beloved of the knight-errant, out of his recollections of Aldonza Lorenzo. The character of Dulci­nea is very different from the peasant woman who inspired her creation, to the point that the latter is entirely effaced, while the imaginary Dulcinea, as she has taken possession of don Quixote’s inner world, becomes stronger and plays an increa­singly important role in the novel, exerting influence on the development of events. This will be more evident in the second part of the novel, where two women at the duke’s court, the duchess herself and Altisidora, take on the task of unmasking the nonexistence of Dulcinea, and induce don Quixote to fall in love with a real woman, a role assumed by Altisidora. In this essay, I argue that the more these real women question Dulci­nea, the stronger will be don Quixote’s feelings for his imaginary beloved. This process takes place within one of the central conflicts of Cervantes’ novel: the struggle between the creatures of the imagination and those we accept as real.

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  Don Quixote creates Dulcinea of El Toboso, the beloved of the knight-errant, out of his recollections of Aldonza Lorenzo. The character of Dulci­nea is very different from [...]

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• Ricote, a Spaniard outside of Spain: Identity and Spaces for Freedom in Cervantes

  F. Parga

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 1

  
  

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  This paper offers a reading of the Morisco character Ricote (Quijote, II, 54) from the perspective of the experience of emigration and exile of a Spaniard outside of Spain. The paper offers also a reflection on the related issues of Ricote’s identity as a «Spaniard», as well as that of the spaces created by Cervantes within the novel to present, with a certain degree of freedom, both a moving portrait of the character, and a defense of his expulsion from Spain.

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  This paper offers a reading of the Morisco character Ricote (Quijote, II, 54) from the perspective of the experience of emigration and exile of a Spaniard outside of Spain. [...]

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• Golden Age Theatre Bills Revisited

  M. Peña

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (1), 1

  
  

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  The present work updates research on Spanish Golden Age comedy bills and reproduces the so far known ones. It also offers valuable new information, in the light of current databases, meticulous library and archive catalogues, and the constant research carried out by qualified specialists in the field of Golden Age theatre manuscripts.

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  The present work updates research on Spanish Golden Age comedy bills and reproduces the so far known ones. It also offers valuable new information, in the light of current [...]

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• Poetry in Fiction: an approximation to the structure of «El curioso impertinente»

  S. Aguilar

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 1

  
  

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  The present work analyzes how poetry breaks into the structure of El curioso impertinente. Firstly, it should be highlighted that El curioso impertinente is a novel considered as fiction within the don Quixote’s frame of reference (fictional plane), and in which characters are constantly acting fake situations, that ends up becoming true, which leads them to a renewed need to feign or to lie. From this perspective, the work focuses on the paradox that, given this plane fixed so far from the reality of the reader, the three poems recited by the characters come from a world outside fiction since they have actual authors in Cervantes’s time. Furthermore, the two sonnets ‘written’ by Lotario belong to the more serious Cervantine poetry, and thus belong to Spanish Golden Age lyrical tradition. Another paradox is also present: the five poems, which are rated as literature by the characters of the novel, foreshadow the events that will take place in the novel’s reality; unveiling a structure in which reality is constantly imitating fiction.

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  The present work analyzes how poetry breaks into the structure of El curioso impertinente. Firstly, it should be highlighted that El curioso impertinente is a novel considered [...]

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• Don Quixote Intends to give us Music; and Being his it will not be Bad

  L. Sancho

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 1

  
  

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  The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha is crossed with a quantity and variety of poems that result being eco of the events that happen in the narration. In this opportunity the romance is analyzed and commented. «Mighty Love the hearts of maidens», of chapter XLVI of the Second Part, is an example of the Cervantes poetics of love and cavalry that weaves relationships with other events, themes and poems, inserted in the Cervantes novel.

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  The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha is crossed with a quantity and variety of poems that result being eco of the events that happen in the narration. In this [...]

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• Fame and Infamy of Duke of Braganza in the Spanish Golden Age Theatre

  F. Matito

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 1

  
  

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  «Portuguese matter» is a subject that inspired a large amount of plays of the Spanish Golden Age. This is especially the case in the period of the dual monarchy, in which the outstanding episodes in the history of Portugal and their main protagonists are dealt, in general, from a Castilian-centered perspective. This article specifically focuses on the events involving the dukes of Braganza. These events were of great importance not only for the history of Portugal but for the Austrian monarchy. They also served as the source of a number of comedies of the theatre in the Golden Age. Several of Lope de Vega’s plays are analyzed including El duque de Viseo, El más galán portugués, with the intention of contrasting them with the Granada playwright Cubillo de Aragón’s La tragedia del duque de Berganza. The analysis of the dramatizations evidences the different attitudes of both playwrights towards the house of Braganza. It also evidences the different assessment of Portuguese nobility in relation to the historical circumstances that they experienced during the reign of John II of Portugal. In the case of Lope de Vega, during the same time period as the dual monarchy, the plays are written in order to ennoble his image and, in the case of Cubillo, to validate his reputation as a traitor, following the uprise against the monarchy of Phillip IV, which lead to the secession of Portugal.

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  «Portuguese matter» is a subject that inspired a large amount of plays of the Spanish Golden Age. This is especially the case in the period of the dual monarchy, in which [...]

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