Tilting Cervantes
Baroque Reflections on Postmodern Culture
Vanderbilt University Press · Print & ebook · November 28, 2008
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- Who it’s for
- Tilting Cervantes sets contemporary works beside early modern literature to trace their surprising literary reflections.
- Genres
- Comparative Literature, Hispanic American Lit Crit, Iberian Lit Crit
- Published
- Vanderbilt University Press, November 28, 2008
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Tilting Cervantes examines several contemporary texts -- Fight Club, Brazil, The Matrix, and The Moor's Last Sigh, among others -- by reflecting them against a cluster of early modern Spanish and Latin American literary works, principally Don Quixote.
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Through a deliberate juxtaposition of these cross-cultural and cross-epochal texts, this book explores the notion that each of these varied cultural products can be read -in a very Borgesian manner- as precursors to each other, especially for contemporary readers who may not come to them in their "proper" chronological order. At the same time, and within this larger juxtaposition, this book examines the interrelated baroque and postmodern preoccupation with mirrors and self-reflexivity, and thus argues that many postmodern writers and performers do not so much break new ground as simply rediscover terrain already explored by such baroque literary figures as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Francisco de Quevedo, and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.
Baroque Reflections
Tilting Cervantes sets contemporary works beside early modern literature to trace their surprising literary reflections.
Come here for
- Cross-reading Fight Club, Brazil, The Matrix, and The Moor’s Last Sigh against Don Quixote
- Baroque and postmodern play with mirrors and self-reflexivity
Expect
- Comparisons across Spanish, Latin American, and contemporary works
- Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Quevedo, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Where it sits
| Comparative Literature | 54% |
|---|---|
| Hispanic American Lit Crit | 40% |
| Iberian Lit Crit | 36% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Iberian Lit Crit
- Film History
- Pop Culture Studies
- Authors
- Bruce R. Burningham
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Published
- November 28, 2008
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Iberian Lit Crit