From: "Chad M. Gasta" <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 14:40:32 -0500
Subject: Festschrift in honor of Robert L. Fiore

Dear Colleague and Friend,

On the eve of Professor Robert L. Fiore’s retirement from academia and to commemorate his many contributions to Hispanic studies, we are editing a collection of essays in his honor that will appear as a part of Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs’ well-known Homenajes series. The contributors are distinguished scholars from around the world. A list of the volume’s essays is below.

We write to invite you to add your name to the volume’s Tabula Gratulatoria.  For $28, your name will appear on the list, and you will receive a hardcover copy of the volume.  To join the Tabula honoring Bob, please send a check made out to Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs for $28.00 before November 15, 2008.  Please also include the exact way you would like your name to appear in the Tabula. Send your check and information to:
 
Chad M. Gasta
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Iowa State University
3102 Pearson Hall
Ames, IA 50011
 
Please pass this announcement along to anyone who may be interested.  We hope you will join us in this project to honor Bob, whose scholarship and friendship have had such a profound impact on so many of us.
 
Best Wishes,
Julia Domínguez
Chad M. Gasta
 
Table of Contents
 
Introduction: Robert L. Fiore
Chad M. Gasta
Julia Domínguez

1. William R. Blue
Pennsylvania State University
“Ya amor es mercader:” Deceit, Counterfeiting, Love and Money in Don Gil de las calzas verdes

2. Danny Brunette-López
University of South Dakota
Entropic Humor and the Subversion of the “Ordered System:” Anticlericalism and Skepticism in Lazarillo de Tormes
 
3. Lourdes Bueno
Austin College
La simbología in bono del águila en La pícara Justina

4. Antonio Carreño
Brown University
Las picardía de un secretario: Lope de Vega

5. Frank P. Casa
The University of Michigan
Power, Passion and Duty in Moreto’s Primero es la honra

6. Fredrick A. De Armas
University of Chicago
From Goa to Lisboa:  Imperial, Erotic and Hagiographic Storms in Tirso’s Escarmientos para el cuerdo

7. Manuel Delgado Morales
Bucknell University
Delincuencia, carnaval y comedia en Bajarse al moro

8. Julia Domínguez
Iowa State University
Cuando la picaresca determinó pasarse a Indias: el caso de Mi tío Atahualpa

9. Deborah A. Dougherty
Alma College
Marriage as Sacrifice: Girardian Ritual in El Conde Partinuplés

10. Susan L. Fischer
Bucknell University
Aspectuality, Dramatic Performativity, and El castigo sin venganza: (Re)Performing Lope’s Problem Tragedy on Stage and Page

11. Edward H. Friedman
Vanderbilt University
Collaborating with Lope de Vega; or, Wits Friend

12. Chad M. Gasta
Iowa State University
Early Opera in Spain and the New World: the Genesis of a Transatlantic Genre

13. David Gitlitz
University of Rhode Island
Comediantes and the Inquisition in Colonial Mexico

14. Margaret R. Greer
Duke University
Early Modern Spanish Theatrical Transmission, Memory, and a Claramonte Play

15. David J. Hildner
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Amos Calderonianos injeridos en criados

16. A. Robert Lauer
The University of Oklahoma
Las estrategias retórico-narrativas de la Dorotea de Cervantes: Don Quijote 1.24, 28-30, 36-37, 46

17. Howard Mancing
Purdue University
Don Quijote: The Texture of the Text
 
18. Barbara Mujica
Georgetown University
Letters to Friend and Foe: Ana de Jesús in France and the Low Countries

19. Thomas Austin O’Connor
Binghamton University (State University of New York)
Nuevas meditaciones sobre La vida es sueño

20. James A. Parr
University of California, Riverside
El coloquio de los pastores II: Further Inquiry into Academic Culture and Criticism

21. C. George Peale
California State University, Fullerton
Playing Ball in Philip IVs Court, or, A Curious Coincidence in the Materialist History of the Comedia

22. Janet Pérez
Texas Tech University
Perspectivas sobre el cine de Miguel Delibes, fiel reflejo de la cultura popular española de la segunda mitad del siglo XX

23. Antonia Petro
Loyola Marymount University
En busca de la bruja del XVII español

24. Helen H. Reed
State University of New York at Oneonta
Catalina de Cardona, “la Mujer Pecadora,” and Her Auto/Biographies

25. Joseph V. Ricapito
Louisiana State University
From Reading to Seeing: The Picaresque in Films

26. Alison J. Ridley
Hollins University
Traces of Calderón’s La vida es sueño in Buero Vallejo’s El sueño de la razón

27. Matthew D. Stroud
Trinity University
Artistic Distance and the Comedia: Lessons from Don Quijote

28. Sharon D. Voros
United States Naval Academy
Leonor’s Library: The Last Will and Testament of Leonor de la Cueva y Silva

29. Judith Whitenack
University of Nevada, Reno
Trapped Author, Trapped Characters: Ana Caro’s Partinuplés

30. Diane M. Wright
Grand Valley State University
Finding One’s Way in the Counter Reformation: Thomistic Thought in Tirso de Molina and Calderón de la Barca

Contributor Biographies

Chad M. Gasta
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
Director, Languages & Cultures for Professions
Director, Western European Studies Program
Iowa State University
3102 Pearson Hall
Ames, IA  50011-2205
TEL. (515) 294-0918
FAX. (515) 294-9914

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www.language.iastate.edu/gasta

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: 405/325-0103 (office)
Vision: Harmonious collaboration in an international world.
Mission: "Visualize clearly and communicate promptly"
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