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- Title: Anthony Close: A Remembrance
- Author : Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
- Release Date : January 22, 2011
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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LIKE ALL WHO KNEW Anthony Close, I was stunned on receiving word of his sudden passing on September 17, 2010. Distinct memories of his vigorous gait and beaming smile contrasted excruciatingly with the thought that he was gone forever. For me, Anthony was not only an admired colleague but a dear friend and neighbor. Like most of this journal's readers, I first came to know Anthony through his scholarship. In the mid-eighties I was working on an extensive essay that focused on what I called the "social destiny" of Don Quijote, and Anthony's groundbreaking The Romantic Approach to DON QUIXOTE was proving very useful for me in its clear-eyed assessment of the ideological roots of the dominant readings of Cervantes's masterpiece over the past two centuries. I did have some serious reservations, however, about what I referred to, in a rather unkind footnote, as the startling "naivete" of what appeared to be one of his basic premises--that is, that present-day scholars might be able to reconstruct what the actual response to Don Quijote was among readers in early seventeenth-century Spain. Anthony had already begun to emerge as a leading representative of the hard-line "funny book" strand within Cervantes scholarship (Russell, Eisenberg), and while I sympathized with the latter's historicizing tendency, I also found it to be overly restrictive in many ways.