The article tends to fathom the relations between the “baroque” as the certain identification of the Spanish World of the 16th and 17th centuries and the breathes of modernity that mere apparent in Europe, being under pressure of the iniciation of the scientific revolution, “religion reforms” and the historical background. We try to analyse this dispute by referring to some extracts from Cervantes’s Don Quijote de la Mancha and it’s influence on the formation of the proper of the ESP – American culture.
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Esta comunicación pretende ahondar en la relación entre “barroco” como sustrato identitario del mundo hispánico en los siglos xvi y xvii y los aires de modernidad que se hacían presentes en una Europa convulsionada entre los inicios de la revolución científica, las “reformas religiosas” y las permanencias históricas. Trataremos de analizar ese debate mediante ciertos pasajes de la obra cervantina Don Quijote de la Mancha y su efecto sobre la gestación de una cultura propiamente hispanoamericana.
The paper deals with the critical texts of two writers / researchers whose roots come from Russia and interests are focused on similar literature areas among other things on Don Quijote. Zofia Szmydtowa a Russian researcher whose career was developed mainly in Poland and Vladimir Nabokov, whose critical and literature analysis were conceived outside Russia decided to make an attempt to decode the Cervantes’ masterpiece. Both authors have their own concept concerning interpretation and analysis of the Cervantes’ novel. The author of the paper tries to find similarities in their understanding and critical idiom, discovering the justification of such different critical texts. Although texts were written in different circumstances and environments they have a lot in common what is shown in the paper.
Taking as its cue the 2016 quatercentenaries of the deaths of both Shakespeare and Cervantes, the essay offers some insights into the “transversal connections” between both events as celebrated in Spain and the UK. The questions it raises and attempts to resolve are fourfold: (1) What are the reasons and also the benefits of yoking together two such apparently disparate authors, whose strongest link is, arguably, the fact they both passed away in 1616? (2) What work is being done to restore these writers to life, especially in schools where, for a variety of reasons, literature has lost its core-curricular status, and in general society where the classics seem to have less and less import? (3) What might Shakespeare or Cervantes be said to stand for in their respective cultures, both in terms of the genres they wrote in (it is often forgotten, for instance, that Cervantes was also a poet and a dramatist) and the extra-literary values they are said to transmit? (4) What is the role of the State in the safeguarding and promotion of the nation’s cultural heritage?
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