: Mary G. Berg
: Studies in Honor of Denah Lida
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This volume contains several outstanding scholarly contributions written by some of the leading critics in the field of Hispanic literature. Essential reference material.
How I Was Traded to Brandéis by Denah Lida (p. 15)

Edward Engelberg

I am well aware that Denah Lida could care less about sports, but she knows what a fan I am. So I don`t think she`ll mind my use of the sports analogy of being"traded" to Brandéis through her arts and crafts (especially since she knows I am out of my depths as a Hispanist). Actually, of course, I wanted to leave the Midwest and head East, and my"no-trade" clause (tenure) made it possible for me to choose where I would go.

But every trade needs a good agent, and as it turned out Denah was mine. And if you ask what did she trade me for, what did she have to give, well it was her enduring friendship. A fair trade in any sport. Before we ever met face to face, Denah and I had a lengthy phone relationship.

And long distance, to boot. Here I was, a newly tenured Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and she was chair of what was then known as the Department of European Languages and Comparative Literature at Brandéis. Since those were the days before"free minutes" on a cell phone, our conversations, usually evenings and weekends, were pretty costly at my salary. Often I called her at home, so I imagine the calls were costly to her as well. (Denah would never have asked for reimbursement from the Dean!)

It started like most trades. I was unhappy with my team and coach, we had family ties back East, and somehow I naively thought the weather around Boston would be more kindly than the cold and snowy Midwest. So one December evening I called my friend and mentor, Austin Warren, at his home and wondered whether I might come for a chat. He readily agreed.

After I unburdened my unhappiness and told him that Brandéis` heavy catalogue really had impressed me (and it had), he said, in his low and kind voice, between puffs on a cigarette, that he would write his friend Victor Harris, who just happened to be Chair of the English Department at Brandéis.

But I never heard from Victor Harris—not then—but a call came one evening from someone with a firm, friendly, professional and charming voice. Denah Lida introduced herself, and I must admit that even without knowing the spelling of either name, it sounded quite magical (was it like Yeats`s"Leda"?).

She wanted to talk to me about a possible position in the Department of European Languages and Comparative Literature. My heart sank. She knew I was in English, of course, because Victor Harris had told her, but that Department already had someone in my field (Yeats, as it was then) and her department might (and she spoke that word with all the uncertainty it could possibly imply), just might, have an opening.

I was charmed by the voice but chilled by the message. Sorry, I said, though my native language was German, and while I kept it up by minoring in German literature for the Ph.D..
Contents10
Denah Lida14
Denah Lida16
Denah Lida: Publications18
Después del sueño 22
How I Was Traded to Brandeis by Denah Lida24
Denah Lida: Reminiscences27
Papi's Teacher29
Denah and I33
For Denah (Eva and Raimundo)35
Alfonso VIII and the Jewess of Toledo: A Political Affair36
El proceso creativo en la canción del Marqués de Santillana36
El proceso creativo en la canción del Marqués de Santillana36
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En busca de un profeta perdido: el viaje maravilloso de Buluqiyå a los confines del universo en una leyenda aljamiada del siglo XVI65
John Donne and Spain80
Teresa de Cartagena and the Uncircumcised Ear93
A Note on Female Agency and the Éfire Figure in Góngora's Soledad segunda105
Intimacy and Allegory in a Quevedo Sonnet (105
Intimacy and Allegory in a Quevedo Sonnet (105
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Runaways in Cervantes122
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Past Perfect: The Battle Against Time in Don Quixote141
Witinia's Letters (1822) as Romantic Novel and Critique of the Spanish Mindset153
Decline and Fall: Emile Zola's Les Quatre Evangiles165
La de Bringas: metrópoli, moda, identidad172
The Three Faces of Misericordia187
La revolución sentimental de Ramón Pérez de Ayala, y la corriente del teatro de187
La revolución sentimental de Ramón Pérez de Ayala, y la corriente del teatro de187
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Crisis espiritual, crisis histórica: Azorín, Unamuno y Machado en la encrucijada de la modernidad205
La generación de Machado y Unamuno219
La voz a ti debida and the Poetics of Translation226
El exilio: camino hacia luz interior235
Desde la pared de vidrio hasta la otra orilla: El exilio de María Martínez Sierra245
La visión contradictoria de la postguerra española de Carmen Martín Gaite259
Itinerarios culturales y memoria en el exilio español en México267
Intersubjectivity and Empathy in Iberian Letters and Languages279
Gonzalo Guerrero, Conquistador Conquistado: A Case of Counter-Conversion in 16th Century Mexico289
Francisco Pimentel pionero de la lingüistica (y de la etnología)299
Role Models and Andean Identities in Clorinda Matto de Turner's Hima-Sumac306
Un discurso de la hispanidad: retórica y política en el nacionalismo católico argentino en la década de 1930315
La inevitable profecía del descubrimiento de América: Guanahani el sueño de Colón, de Roberto Espina322
Borges y su invención de Buenos Aires330
The Americas and (in) Europe: Borges and the Literary Tradition334
Pools of Memory: Swimming in the Southern Cone348
Persecution and Deliverance in Aridjis' 1492: Vida y tiempos de Juan Cabezón de Castilla360
Hacia una estética de la carencia: estrategias formales de resistencia en Diamela Eltit375
Héroes sin honra: ética y derrota en la narrativa latinoamericana del fin del siglo XX391
Ladino Speaking Women of the 20[sup(th)] Century400
Embracing the Hispanic: Jews, Puerto Ricans and Spaniards in Immigrant New York (1880-1950)412
Tabula Gratulatoria423