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Subject(s)

• Politics and literature—Spain—History—17th century [Browse]
• Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de 1547-1616—Don Quixote [Browse]
• Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de 1547-1616—Political and social views [Browse]

Series

Toronto Iberic. [More in this series]

Summary note

"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."--Page [i].

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018)
• Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• 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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Other format(s)

Issued also in print.

ISBN

• 9781442696761 $q (electronic bk.)
• 1442696761 $q(electronic bk.)
• 9781442643710 $q (cloth)
• 9781442612235 $q (paper)

OCLC

• 794619781
• 1076397005

Doi

• 10.3138/9781442696761

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