A Stubborn Ghost - Essays in Honor of Henry W. Sullivan

The title of the collection comes directly from Sullivan's recent study on tragic drama in the Golden Age of Spain.

A tribute to Henry W. Sullivan in celebration of his 80th birthday, this volume encompasses a wide spectrum of Hispanic literary scholarship to honor a prolific scholar whose contributions have been extensive, not only as a Golden Age Hispanist but also as a devoted Lacanian scholar, literary critic, translator, poet, novelist, playwright, and composer. The title of the collection comes directly from Sullivan's recent study on tragic drama in the Golden Age of Spain. Even though the "ghost" he attempts to lay there is the critical controversy around defining and classifying tragedy among Spanish classic comedias, the label extends and applies to Sullivan's lifelong commitment to the relevance of Spanish drama of the Golden Age within the universal canon, especially from an English-language perspective. Moreover, his arguments are easily applicable in defense of the Humanities and the significance of Literature amid the unwelcome structural changes in Academia.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

List of Illustrations - Acknowledgments - Introduction - Curriculum Vitae - Talking of Laying a Stubborn Ghost: A Conversation with Henry W. Sullivan - Jane W. Albrecht: Body and Soul: Race, Mystical Feminism and National Identity in Blanca de los Ríos's Profiles of Teresa de Ávila and Tirso de Molina - Ignacio Arellano: Más piezas de títulos de comedias. Piezas dramáticas (tercera entrega) - E. Stewart Atkins: Felices para siempre? Papel del hombre fracasado en las Novelas ejemplares de Miguel de Cervantes - Laura R. Bass: Image and Likeness: Gender and Calderón's auto sacramental El pintor de su deshonra - John Charles: Pagans and Protestants in Early Modern Jesuit Mission: Rhetorical Accommodation in the Works of Pablo José de Arriaga of Peru (1564-1622) and Rodrigo de Arriaga of Bohemia (1592-1667) - Isabel Crespo: Calderón como topógrafo de lo trágico en Las tres justicias en una - D. W. Cruickshank: Juan Isidro Fajardo's Índice de todas las comedias impresas hasta el año de 1716 - Frederick A. de Armas: Clashing Genres and Geographies: Cleanthes, Timantes and Tirso's Escarmientos para el cuerdo - Edward H. Friedman: Reception Difficulties: The Ins and Outs of Cervantes's El laberinto de amor - Raúl A. Galoppe: The Aesthetics of Desire: Martín Barreiro's Staging of El burlador de Sevilla y Convidado de Piedra - Margaret R. Greer: Tirso de Molina, Free Will, and Artificial Intelligence - Steven Hess: Menéndez Pidal ante el lenguaje literario del Siglo de Oro - A. Robert Lauer: Reseña de El Calderón alemán. Recepción e influencia de un genio hispano (1654-1980) por Henry W. Sullivan - Tatjana Pavlovic: Allegorizing the Body Politic: Masculinity and History in El jardín de las delicias and Carne trémula - C. George Peale: Notas críticas sobre tres comedias de Vélez de Guevara: Corte, campo y teatro comercial en 1613 - Gerhard Poppenberg : Dream-Life, Dream Politics: Calderón's Conception of the Dream in La vida es sueño - Ellie Ragland: New Light on the Logic of Hysteria - Joseph T. Snow: Celestina y el concepto de tiempo dramático - Robert L. Turner III: The Sacred and the Profane as Paired Dualities in the Santa Juana Trilogy - Contributors - Tabula Gratulatoria.