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• Title: Bruce R. Burningham. Tilting Cervantes. Baroque Reflections on Postmodern Culture.
• Author : Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
• Release Date : January 22, 2009
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 190 KB

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Bruce R. Burningham. Tilting Cervantes. Baroque Reflections on Postmodern Culture. Nashville: Vanderbilt U P, 2008. 227 pp. Includes index. ISBN: 978-0-8265-1602-2 (cloth) and 978-0-8265-1603-9 (paper). How often do the adjectives 'audacious,' 'exciting,' of 'entertaining' seem apt for a scholarly book? In this case, they are. Tilting Cervantes is a treat to read, and should help rekindle a sense of adventure in early modern Spanish studies. Between its covers, Burningham presents a series of scrupulously close readings of contemporary cultural products -- fiction, autobiography, and film -- in the light of Baroque literature, particularly Cervantes. These pieces do not for the most part attempt to provide new insight into Don Quixote of other Spanish classics; rather, they use those classics to provide insight into recent literature and film. Though arguably somewhat under-theorized, the volume puts forward the claim that current culture owes an unacknowledged debt to the Baroque, in particular the techniques and themes associated with metafiction and mirror structures. The book thus constitutes an open invitation to engage in similarly transhistorical work and to begin a dialogue about its implications, without the reader being called upon necessarily to sign on to any specific conceptual framework beforehand.

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