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Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America

Volume I, Numbers 1-2, Fall 1981

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CERVANTES

Bulletin of the CERVANTES SOCIETY OF AMERICA

THE CERVANTES SOCIETY OF AMERICA

President

JUAN BAUTISTA AVALLE-ARCE (1982)

Vice President

BRUCE W. WARDROPPER (1982)

Secretary-Treasurer

PATRICIA KENWORTHY (1982)

Executive Council
JOHN J. ALLENJAMES A. PARR
RUTH EL SAFFAR HELENA PERCAS DE PONSETI
EDWARD FRIEDMAN ELIAS L. RIVERS
LEO J. HOAR, JR. JOSEPH H. SILVERMAN
FRANCISCO MÁRQUEZ VILLANUEVA ALAN S. TRUEBLOOD

Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
Editor: JOHN J. ALLEN
Assistant to the Editor: THOMAS A. LATHROP

Editor's Advisory Council
JUAN BAUTISTA AVALLE-ARCEEDWARD C. RILEY
JEAN CANAVAGGIO ALBERTO SÁNCHEZ

Associate Editors
DANA B. DRAKE FRANCISCO MÁRQUEZ VILLANUEVA
PETER DUNNLOWRY NELSON, JR.
RUTH EL SAFFAR HELENA PERCAS DE PONSETI
ROBERT M. FLORESGEOFFREY L. STAGG
CARROLL B. JOHNSON BRUCE W. WARDROPPER

Cervantes, official organ of the Cervantes Society of America, publishes scholarly articles in English and Spanish on Cervantes' life and works, reviews, and notes of interest to cervantistas. Twice yearly. Subscription to Cervantes is a part of membership in the Cervantes Society of America, which also publishes a Newsletter. $15.00 a year for individuals and institutions, $25.00 a year for husband and wife, and $8.00 for students. Membership is open to all persons interested in Cervantes. For membership and subscription, send check in dollars to Professor PATRICIA KENWORTHY, Secretary-Treasurer, The Cervantes Society of America, Department of Hispanic Studies, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York 12061. Manuscripts and books for review should be sent to Professor JOHN J. ALLEN, Editor, Cervantes, ASB 170, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611.

Copyright © 1981 by THE CERVANTES SOCIETY OF AMERICA, INC.



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ArribaAbajoFrom the Editor

I am acutely aware that many of you paid dues to the Society in its first year and again in 1980, and that you have paid again in 1981 before getting this tangible return on your investment. I appreciate very much the confidence and patience that I have been assuming this represents, and I have done everything I could to see that the confidence is not misplaced, at least as far as our bulletin, Cervantes, is concerned.

It seems to me that the profession does not need just another journal, one in this case restricted to essays on Cervantes. A good article on Cervantes is probably easier to publish than one on almost any other author, because of a presumably wider appeal. There is no dearth of publication possibilities in our field.

I think we have to offer something rather different, above all something which addresses the peculiar difficulties of working with an author who generates such a vast and disparate bibliography. So, in consultation with the Executive Council of the Society, I have established some priorities for the journal. I solicit particularly studies which will help us to evaluate and assimilate the materials we need in order to work responsibly with Cervantes: the present state of studies on a given work, or the application of an approach or method to Cervantes' works, comparative reviews of editions, syntheses of recent studies, perhaps multiple reviews or retrospectives of seminal works of criticism. I would like to provide space for news and notes on Cervantine activity: conferences, symposia, special lectures, performances, anniversaries, and so forth, and perhaps information on major projects underway among the membership. The Editorial Board will consider all other kinds of articles, but these are the priorities. Communication between those of us who teach Don Quixote in translation in the context of English and comparative literature   —6→   and those who teach it in Spanish has long been lacking, and I therefore solicit eagerly the contributions of both of these groups to the pages of Cervantes.

I hope you will find that the contents of the first issue reflect our special needs and interests. Canavaggio's study, which appeared previously in French and has had limited circulation, involves the intersection of Cervantes' life and his art, and thus seemed particularly appropriate for a journal devoted to both. Percas' and Mancing's contributions represent the kind of varied approach to a single critical issue -in this case the discrimination among the different narrators in Don Quijote- that we seek to encourage. The exchange between El Saffar and Bandera exemplifies the critical dialogue that I had hoped our Society and our journal could foster.

Avalle-Arce's comments on a novela, Murillo's search for origins, Wardropper's fresh look at an entremés embody the variety that I hope will continue to characterize the numbers of Cervantes.

I am excited about the possibilities of our journal. We have a distinguished Advisory Council and a most capable group of Associate Editors. Tom Lathrop has produced a handsome first issue. All of these people have been very helpful in getting Cervantes started. I must thank also Dr. Charles Sidman, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the University of Florida, for his encouragement and financial support during this crucial initial period. But the success of Cervantes depends ultimately on the participation of the membership: on your contributions to the contents. Please send me your comments and news, tell your friends and colleagues what we are doing, and send me your manuscripts. I can assure you of an expeditious reading and response.



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ArribaAbajo The Cervantes Society of America

A Brief History


Patricia Kenworthy


Secretary-Treasurer

At the fordham Cervantes Conference in December 1977, the gathered scholars proposed the creation of a society for those interested in the life and works of Miguel de Cervantes. On the West Coast, Professor Michael McGaha discussed the idea with the participants of the Pomona Conference on «Cervantes and the Renaissance». It was agreed that Professor Leo J. Hoar, Jr. would call the first organizational meeting at Fordham and that these deliberations would provide a model for further development at Pomona.

On October 27, 1978, Professor John J. Allen presided over the first meeting of some thirty interested cervantistas. After a full day of discussion, all agreed that membership would be open to all interested in Cervantes but that annual meetings (for financial reasons) would initially be held in the United States in conjunction with the MLA Convention, that the society would publish a journal and an annual bibliography, and that we needed a constitution. Consequently, Professors Allen, Hoar, and McGaha were elected to the Constitution Committee and Professor Hoar to serve as pro-tem Publicity Director and Treasurer. The Pomona group concurred and the first notices about our nascent society were distributed at the December 1978 MLA Convention in New York.

The Constitution Committee, ably assisted by Professors Luis Murillo and Elias L. Rivers, spent a year drafting a document for the first official membership meeting to be held in San Francisco in December 1979. At the same time, the first officers of the society were elected by mail ballot. Some forty cervantistas gathered in San Francisco to amend and ratify the Constitution and to hear Professor Juan Bautista Avalle-Arce's inaugural address as President. With a membership of 166 and a treasury of $540.19 the society was launched.

Invitations to membership, announcements, elections and plans for the 1980 meeting in Houston were disseminated through a series   —8→   of Newsletters. Professor Allen announced that this first number of Cervantes would be ready in fall 1981. At the Houston meeting, Professor Avalle-Arce announced the election of Martín de Riquer as the first Honorary Member of the Society and initiated an on-going discussion of the editorial criteria for the projected Obras completas volumes.

In 1981 the Society continues to grow. In August we were incorporated as a non-profit organization. In December, in addition to our annual business meeting at the MLA in New York, Professor Ruth El Saffar has organized a special session devoted to the Quijote. Papers will be presented by Professors Howard Mancing, Helena Percas de Ponseti, Arthur Efron, and Cesáreo Bandera. Professor John J. Allen promises another special session on Cervantes for the 1982 MLA in Los Angeles. The future looks bright, thanks to the generous contributions of time, thought, and money by the officers and members, and the guiding spirit of Cervantes.



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