>Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:33:49 -0400 >From: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Tres pésames >To: "A. Robert Lauer" <[log in to unmask]> > >Prof. A. Robert Lauer >University of Oklahoma >5 de abril, 2006. > >Distinguido colega: Supe con gran pena del >fallecimiento de Carroll B. Johson a >las pocas horas. Una perdida doblemente dolorosa por lo inesperada. Fue uno de >mis primeros estudiantes en este pais, a la vez que uno de los mejores y >mantuvimos siempre una excelente relacion. Su trabajo fue uno de los mas >solidos y estimulantes del hispanismo de este pais. Estamos todos de luto. Mi >sincera condolencia a la familia y a los colegas y estudiantes de su >Departamento. Francisco Márquez Villanueva. ---------- Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 09:39:59 -0700 From: Jose Reynaldo Cartagena <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Obituario Carroll Johnson To: [log in to unmask] Estimado Roberto: Todos seguimos profundamente consternados por la muerte de Carroll Johnson. Incluyo a continuación su obituario que salió hoy, 7 de abril, en el periódico Los Angeles Times. Recibe un saludo muy cordial de, Jose R. Cartagena-Calderon Assistant Professor Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Pomona College 550 N. Harvard Ave. Claremont, CA 91711 ---------- <http://mail.pomona.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-johnson7apr07,1,5588083.story?ctrack=1%26cset=true>http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-johnson7apr07,1,5588083.story?ctrack=1&cset=true OBITUARIES Carroll Johnson, 69; Cervantes scholar From a Times Staff Writer April 7, 2007 Carroll Johnson, a longtime Spanish professor at UCLA whose Freudian analysis of novelist Miguel de Cervantes and his masterpiece "Don Quixote" stirred controversy among Cervantes scholars, died Tuesday in Chicago after a stroke. He was 69. Johnson had been in Chicago to deliver a lecture, a UCLA representative said. A Los Angeles native who spent his entire academic career at UCLA, Johnson was past president of the Cervantes Society of America and editor of the scholarly journal Cervantes. In 2005 he oversaw a monthlong celebration at UCLA marking the 100th [sic] anniversary of "Don Quixote," the tragicomic novel about a self-styled knight-errant on a quest to restore chivalry to the world. The event included a marathon reading of the novel by students along with films and scholarly talks, including an address by Johnson for the 98th in the university's Faculty Research Lecture series. Johnson was known for insightful and groundbreaking research, particularly in his 1983 book "Madness and Lust: A Psychoanalytical Approach to 'Don Quixote.' " He later wrote from a socioeconomic perspective in "Cervantes and the Material World." His observations about Quixote's Oedipal conflicts and his beard (which he described as an "upwardly displaced analogue of the virile member") fascinated and repelled critics. A Los Angeles Times reviewer said Johnson's Freudian insights gave the book "a modern perspective," but Justin Marozzi, writing in the London Sunday Telegraph, found them "absurd." Tall, wiry and bearded, Johnson received bachelor's and master's degrees from UCLA in 1960 and 1961. His doctorate, in 1966, was from Harvard. He joined the UCLA faculty as an acting assistant professor in 1964 and became a full professor in 1976. Johnson is survived by his wife, Linda Leslie Johnson, and their daughter, Amy. ------------------------------------------------------------- This message has been scanned by Postini anti-virus software. Prof. A. Robert Lauer The University of Oklahoma Dept. of Modern Langs., Lits., & Ling. 780 Van Vleet Oval, Kaufman Hall, Room 206 Norman, Oklahoma 73019-2032, USA Tel.: 405-325-5845 (office); 405/325-6181 (OU dept.); Fax: 1-866-602-2679 (private)Vision: Harmonious collaboration in an international world. Mission: "Visualize clearly and communicate promptly" <http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/A-Robert.R.Lauer-1/vita.html>VITA / <http://www.peterlang.com/all/>IBÉRICA /<http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/A-Robert.R.Lauer-1/AITENSO.html>AITENSO / <http://www.ou.edu/bcom/>BCom / <http://www.comedias.org/>AHCT / <http://www.mla.org/>MLA / <http://www.ou.edu/cervantes/coloquiocervantes.html>Coloquio <http://www.ou.edu/cervantes/coloquiocervantes.html>Cervantes / <http://www.ou.edu/teatro/coloquioteatro.html>Coloquio Teatro de los Siglos de Oro