Stephen Gilman

Stephen Gilman (1917 in Chicago – November 23, 1986 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American Hispanist, known for his work on the 15th-century novel La Celestina.[1]

Biography

Gilman studied at Princeton University under Américo Castro and received his doctorate in 1943 with the work A critical analysis of the "Quijote apocrifo" of Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda (published in Spanish: "Cervantes y Avellaneda. Estudio de una imitación", Mexico City 1951, Ann Arbor 1987). After 2 years of military service, he was a Princeton assistant professor from 1946 to 1948. He went to Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and was first an associate professor, then a full professor from 1950 to 1956.[1] For the academic year 1950–1951 he was a Guggenheim Fellow.[2] From 1957 until his retirement in 1985, he taught at Harvard University as a professor of Romance languages.[3] In 1961 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1]

Gilman was the son-in-law of Jorge Guillén and the brother-in-law of Claudio Guillén.

Selected publications
  • The Art of “La Celestina”, Madison 1956, Westport 1976 (Spanish: La Celestina. Arte y estructura, Madrid 1974, 1992)
  • Tiempos y formas temporales en el "Poema del Cid", Madrid 1961, 1969, Ann Arbor 1971, 1982
  • The tower as emblem. Chapter VIII, IX, XIX and XX of the “Chartreuse de Parme”, Frankfurt am Main 1967
  • The Spain of Fernando de Rojas. The intellectual and social landscape of “La Celestina”, Princeton 1972, 1976, 2015 e-book edition (Spanish: La España de Fernando de Rojas. Panorama intelectual y social de “La Celestina”, Madrid 1978)
  • Galdós and the art of the European novel 1867-1887, Princeton 1981, 2014 e-book edition
  • The novel according to Cervantes, Berkeley 1989

Further reading
  • Creation and re-creation. Experiments in literary form in early modern Spain. Studies in honor of Stephen Gilman, ed. by Ronald E. Surtz and Nora Weinerth, Newark, Del. 1983[4]
  • Francisco Márquez Villanueva, "Stephen Gilman", in: Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica 35, 1987, pp. 1–4 JSTOR 40298727

References
  1. Rose, Constance H. (1988). "In memoriam Stephen Gilman (1917-1986)". Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America. 8 (2): 251–253.
  2. "Stephen Gilman". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  3. Round, Nicholas G. (1987). "Stephen Gilman 1917–1986". Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 64 (3): 245–248. doi:10.3828/bhs.64.3.245. ISSN 1475-3839.
  4. Kerkhof, Maxim. P. A. M. (1986). "Creation and Re-creation: Experiments in Literary Form in Early Modern Spain, edited by Ronald Surtz and Nora Weinerth (Book Review)". Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 63 (3): 275–277. doi:10.3828/bhs.63.3.275. ISSN 1475-3839.
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