Editor’s Note

7 Editor’s Note Bruce R. Burningham F ollowing our very successful Spring 2012 special cluster on “Cognitive Cervantes,” the journal returns to its regular variety of topics and methodologies. Nevertheless, readers will note a number of common themes running throughout the Fall 2012 issue. We begin with a “Note” by John Jay Allen in which he briefly revisits the subject of his well-known book Don Quijote: Hero or Fool? Remixed by connecting his ideas to a line of poetry penned by the American poet Marianne Moore. Rosilie Hernández provides this issue’s leading article in an essay in which she explores the intersection of the work of Niccolò Machiavelli, Fadrique Furió Ceriol, and Louis Althusser by examining the way in which their ideas on government help to illuminate our understanding of Sancho’s governorship in the Barataria episode of Don Quixote. Wendell Smith and Max Ubelaker Andrade contribute a pair of essays that explore the nexus of cartography and empire in Don Quixote. Smith, who focuses primarily on the Enchanted Boat chapter of part two, examines the way in which an innovative and abstract “view from above”—as articulated in cartographic works like Abraham Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum—informs the cosmography that Cervantes parodies in Don Quixote and Sancho’s early modern “voyage of discovery” upon the Ebro River. Ubelaker Andrade, whose examination spans the entirety of Don Quixote while still giving significant attention to the Enchanted Boat episode, is much more interested in the question of “pain” as it applies to Spanish imperial conquest and, in particular, to Cervantes’s juxtaposition of the caballeros cortesanos, who can safely and painlessly “travel” by reading maps, and the caballeros andantes, who risk life and limb to actually traverse the space visually represented on the new cartographic texts. 8 Cervantes Bruce R. Burningham Moisés Castillo and Barbara Weissberger offer two essays that explore Cervantes’s theater in the context of the Mediterranean world’s centurieslong conflict between Islam and Christianity. Castillo examines the anonymous La conquista de Jerusalén por Godofre de Bullón—which has been attributed to Cervantes—and seeks not (necessarily) to corroborate the theory of Cervantes’s authorship, but to explore the thematic, dramatic, and ideological themes that connect this play to many of Cervantes’s dramatic works, including El trato de Argel, Los baños de Argel, and La gran sultana. Weissberger, for her part, explores the previously established connection between Cervantes’s El trato de Argel, Lope de Vega’s Los cautivos de Argel, and Cervantes’s Los baños de Argel, arguing that another of Lope’s plays, El niño inocente de La Guardia, also serves as an important intertext for Cervantes’s second dramatic expression of the Algerian theme. Finally, in an echo of our recent “Cognitive Cervantes” cluster, Ryan Schmitz provides our concluding article in a piece that explores the relationship between embodied cognition in the Novelas ejemplares and Don Quixote and the medieval and Renaissance notion of the “heart” as the locus of human emotion, conscience, and memory. This Fall 2012 issue concludes, of course, with a set of book reviews: Michael Joy reviews Anthony Cascardi and Leah Middlebrook’s Poiesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds; Isabel Lozano-Renieblas reviews Ruth Fine’s Una lectura semiótico-narratológica del QUIJOTE en el contexto del Siglo de Oro español; and Stephen Hessel reviews Tom Lathrop’s translation and edition of Don Quixote. As always, I thank the journal’s many peer reviewers and Associate Editors for all their hard work. I also thank Esteban Touma for continuing to lend a hand in the editorial preparation of this issue, despite having relocated to Indonesia. And I thank Kelsey Kuzniewski, my new editorial assistant, for getting up to speed so quickly and then stepping into the breach with such aplomb. BRB ...