The Artist - Roger Cummiskey.
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Anthony J. Cascardi.
Book Description
Publication Date: November 30, 2011
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 through indirect forms including comedy, myth, and travellers’ tales.
Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics convincingly re-engages the ancient roots of political theory in modern literature by situating Cervantes within a long line of political thinkers. Cascardi notably connects Cervantes’s political theory to Plato’s, much as the writer’s literary criticism has been firmly linked to Aristotle’s. He also shows how Cervantes’s 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.
Director :: Townsend Center for the Humanities;
Professor :: Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, Spanish; U.C. Berkeley.
One of my images of Don Quijote was chosen by Anthony for the cover. Thank you.
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- Don Quijote the pluralist.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).
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