Stephen Gilman
American philologist (1917–1986)
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Stephen Gilman (1917 – November 23, 1986) was an American Hispanist, known for his work on the 15th-century novel La Celestina.[1]
Stephen Gilman | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1917 Chicago, Illinois, US |
| Died | November 23, 1986 (aged 68–69) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Thesis | A critical analysis of the "Quijote apocrifo" of Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Hispanic studies |
| Institutions | |
Main interests | La Celestina |
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 two 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 of 1950–51, 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] He died on November 23, 1986, aged 68 or 69, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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