Cervantes, literature, and the discourse of politics / Anthony J. Cascardi.
Cascardi, Anthony J., 1953-
2012
PQ6353 .C33 2012 (Mapit)
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Title Cervantes, literature, and the discourse of politics / Anthony J. Cascardi.
Author Cascardi, Anthony J., 1953-
ISBN 9781442643710 (alk. paper)
1442643714 (alk. paper)
9781442612235 (pbk.)
1442612231 (pbk.)
Publication Details Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2012.
Language English
Description viii, 351 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number PQ6353 .C33 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 863/.3
Summary "What is the role of literature in the formation of the state? Anthony J. Cascardi takes up this fundamental question in Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics, a comprehensive analysis of the presence of politics in Don Quixote. Cascardi argues that when public speech is constrained, as it was in seventeenth-century Spain, politics must be addressed indirectly, including through comedy, myth, and travellers' tales. Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics convincingly reengages the ancient roots of political theory in modern literature by situating Cervantes within a long line of political thinkers. Cascardi notably connects Cervantes' political theory to Plato's, much as the writer's literary criticism has been firmly linked to Aristotle's. He also shows how Cervantes' view of literature provided a compelling alternative to the modern, scientific politics of Machiavelli and Hobbes, highlighting the potential interplay of literature and politics in an ideal state."--P. [i].
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Toronto Iberic.
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Introduction
What the canon said
Views from nowhere
Controversies
The practice of theory
Politics brought down to earth
Imagining the nation
Civil society, virtue, and the pursuit of happiness
Free speech?

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