Pod Quixote: A Cervantine Podcast
Your host, Stephen Hessel, has read Cervantes's works obsessively for almost 20 years. Convinced that you can say both everything and nothing about the masterpiece Don Quixote and Cervantes's lesser read works, he has set out to test his hypothesis by having conversations with both expert "Cervantistas" and other "idle readers" whose thoughts about Cervantes, his works, and our world will both inform and entertain. Pop in your earbuds, click play, and join us for our adventures on "Pod Quixote"! Stephen Hessel is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Ball State University.
Pod Quixote: A Cervantine Podcast
Pod Quixote, Episode 7 Steven Ritz-Barr and Esther Fernández
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Stephen Hessel
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Season 1
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Episode 7
In episode 7, Steven Ritz-Barr and Esther Fernández discuss the fascinating effects that puppets have on representing stories and how puppetry provides us a novel perspective from which to consider the world in which we live. Steven Ritz-Barr is a puppeteer with decades of experience and the creative force behind Quixote (2010), an adaptation of Don Quixote done completely with puppets. Esther Fernández is an Associate Professor at Rice University and her most recent book is titled To Embody the Marvelous: The Making of Illusions in Early Modern Spain (Vanderbilt University Press 2021).