Cervantes, literature, and the discourse of politics /

"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 constrai...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cascardi, Anthony J., 1953- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press [2012]
Series:Toronto Iberic.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442696761
Table of 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?