From: Owen Williams [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 20:57 To: Lauer, A Robert Subject: Folger Institute Seminar on Late Cervantes Dear Professor Lauer, If you consider this seminar appropriate for the Cervantes-L group, would you please forward the announcement below to the list? I would be happy to answer any questions. Best, Owen Owen Williams, Ph.D. Assistant Director for Scholarly Programs The Folger Institute Folger Shakespeare Library 201 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003 202 675 0352 This fall, the Folger Institute welcomes applications from faculty and advanced graduate students to participate in a semester-length seminar with Mary Malcolm Gaylord on “Cervantes’ Fictions and the Early Modern Historical Imagination” Seminar description: For scholars and imitators alike, the character Don Quixote’s “true history” continues to fascinate as meta-fictional puzzle. In the work that propelled the book about the writing of the book into international circulation, Cervantes has often been credited with inventing the modern novel. Yet Cervantes’ rehearsals of the rhetorical conventions and epistemological challenges of historiography, along with keen attention to his own historical present, suggest that much is lost by reducing this fascination to burlesque or mimetic realism. Along with the romances, pseudo-histories, spurious chronicles, and epics often cited as inspiration for Cervantes’ writings, seminar participants will look to Old and New World histories the author surreptitiously devoured and mimicked. By taking the novelist’s engagement with history seriously, the seminar will reconsider the provenance of his “inventions,” his parodic and satiric agendas, and the relation of novels to the writing of history. Readings, both in Spanish and in translation, will focus primarily on Don Quixote I and II, the Novelas Ejemplares, and Los Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda as meta-historical fictions. Director: Mary Malcolm Gaylord is Sosland Family Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Beginning with The Historical Prose of Fernando de Herrera, she has written widely on early modern Hispanic literature, poetics and historiography. Her current projects explore transatlantic intersections of historical and literary imagination in Cervantes and Renaissance and Baroque poetry. Schedule: Fridays, 1 pm – 4:30 pm, October 2 through December 18, 2015, excluding October 16 and November 27. Apply: September 4, 2015 for admission and grants-in-aid<http://www.folger.edu/application-information-and-guidelines>. Travel and lodging awards are offered to members of the Folger Institute consortium<http://www.folger.edu/folger-institute-consortium-executive-committee>; members of the Newberry consortium<https://www.newberry.org/center-renaissance-studies-consortium-members> are encouraged to apply to their representative for funding. Visit the website at http://www.folger.edu/2015-2016-program-offerings#Cervanteshttp://www.folger.edu/2015-2016-program-offerings#Cervantes; please direct any questions to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ________________________________ Prof. A. Robert Lauer The University of Oklahoma Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics 780 Van Vleet Oval, Kaufman Hall, Room 206 Norman, Oklahoma 73019-2032, USA E-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Tel.: 405-325-5845 (office); 405-325-6181 (dept.); Fax: 405-325-0103 (dept.) Vision: Harmonious collaboration in an international world. Mission: "Visualize clearly and communicate promptly" < Vita<http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/A-Robert.R.Lauer-1/vita.html> / Ibérica<http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vSiteName=SearchSeriesResult.cfm&vLang=D&iHerausgeber=&iTitel=I&iStichwort=&iISSN=&vSeriesID=IBERICA> / BCom<http://www.comediantes.org/> / ACal<http://www.unav.es/griso/docs/publicaciones/Acal/principal.html> / Anagnórisis<http://www.anagnorisis.es/> / Estudios Hispánicos<http://www.estudios.uni.wroc.pl/> / AsocCervantistas <http://hispanismo.cervantes.es/asociaciones_ficha.asp?DOCN=4> / ColCervantes<http://www.ou.edu/cervantes/coloquiocervantes.html> / ColTeatro<http://www.ou.edu/teatro/coloquioteatro.html> / Intute<http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091112-13174791> >