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 ''The Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea'' ( es, Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea), known in Spain as ''La Celestina'' is a work entirely in dialogue published in 1499. It is attributed to Fernando de Rojas, a descendant of converted Jews, w ...

''.

Biography

Gilman studied at

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under

Américo Castro Américo Castro y Quesada (May 4, 1885 – July 25, 1972) was a Spanish cultural historian, philologist, and literary critic who challenged some of the prevailing notions of Spanish identity, raising controversy with his conclusions that Spaniard ...

and received his doctorate in 1943 with the work '' A critical analysis of the "Quijote apocrifo" of

Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda is the pseudonym of a man who wrote a sequel to Cervantes' ''Don Quixote'', before Cervantes finished and published his own second volume. The identity of Avellaneda has been the subject of many theories, but there ...

'' (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

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and was first an associate professor, then a full professor from 1950 to 1956. For the academic year 1950–1951 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. From 1957 until his retirement in 1985, he taught at

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as a professor of Romance languages. In 1961 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Gilman was the son-in-law of

Jorge Guillén Jorge Guillén Álvarez (; 18 January 18936 February 1984) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, a university teacher, a scholar and a literary critic. In 1957-1958, he delivered the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard Un ...

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

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gilman, Stephen 1917 births 1986 deaths American Hispanists Princeton University alumni Ohio State University faculty Harvard University faculty

Biography

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