CFP: Impact of Don Quixote on Modern and Postmodern World (11/9/04; 4/15/05-4/16/05)

The Impact of Don Quixote (1605-2005) on the Culture of the Modern and
Postmodern World

April 15-16, 2005
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, Connecticut

This interdisciplinary conference aims to commemorate the first 400 years of
the publication of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quijote de la Mancha and to
address the legacy of Cervantes’s masterpiece over four centuries. Don
Quixote has generated a variety of plays, paintings, films, poetic and
musical compositions, and a number of critical works. Many have recognized
the masterpiece as the first great modern novel.

This is an invitation for scholars from different academic backgrounds to
explore in-depth the influence of Cervantes’s masterpiece on the modern and
postmodern worlds and its impressive ability to renew its creative impact on
successive generations.

The conference will include major keynote addresses, speeches by
internationally-renowned scholars, and many small-group workshops and
paper-presentation sessions.

Submissions are invited for 20-minute presentations in any area connected to
the following (or other relevant) topics.

- The limits of diversity in Don Quixote
- The dimensions of diversity in Cervantes’s works
- Teaching Cervantes in a globalized world
- Don Quijote y la Posteridad
- Don Quixote as a Metaliterary and Metadramatic Text
- Don Quixote and the Birth of Modern Fiction
- Cervantes and the Birth of Modern Western Philosophical Thought
- The Cervantes-Shakespeare Connection
- Cervantes y Rabelais: el Realismo Grotesco
- The Discourse of the Feminine in Cervantes’s Narratives
- Improvisos e improvisaciones en Don Quijote
- Locuras, risas y carnavalizaciones en Don Quijote
- Cervantes y la Educación
- El mundo social del Quijote
- Don Quixote and Western Art
- Readers, Reading, and Reception in Cervantes’s Works
- Don Quijote y la libertad
- Italian Origins of Don Quixote
- Cervantes, Pirandello, and Brecht
- Cervantes and the New World

DEADLINE FOR ONE-PAGE ABSTRACT: November 9, 2004
COMPLETED PAPERS DUE: February 1, 2005

Presentation time for papers and lectures is limited to 20 minutes (8-10
typed, double-spaced pages, excluding notes.)

Mail, Fax or E-mail to:
Organizing Committee:
Dr. Carlos A. Arboleda, Conference Director
The Impact of Don Quixote Conference
Southern Connecticut State University
Department of Foreign Languages
501 Crescent Street
New Haven, CT 06515
Fax: (203) 392-6136
E-mail: arboledac1_at_southernct.edu

Please include your name, full year address, institutional affiliation, day
telephone, fax, and e-mail address.

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