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This book unmasks *Don Quixote* as a key baroque masterpiece, exposing the era’s art as a tool of political manipulation. Cervantes’s genius was to wield the Baroque against itself, creating a mad knight who is a startling reflection of us.
This book claims that Cervantes’s Don Quixote is one of the earliest baroque masterpieces. The author sides with those recent historians who have concluded that the roots of our own modernism and postmodernism are deeply baroque. The book acknowledges that the Baroque is not merely an art form but becomes a cultural mode whose artistic products force the observers of paintings or theater, or readers of fiction to become complicit in the questionable moral and political activity of the period. In Cervantes’ day, early seventeenth century, this is one of the ways that the general population was politically manipulated. The author also deals with other “heroes” of the century, such as Descartes, Velázquez, and Hobbes. Cervantes’s genius is to participate fully in the Baroque while criticizing and undermining it at the same time. Our mad knight does all this and more. We have seen Don Quixote, and he is us.
This book is required reading for humanistic disciplines. Too often, scholars present theories without knowing how to test them empirically. In an engaging way, the authors teach statistics, leading students through projects to analyze their own gathered data.
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain explores the philosophical dilemmas of the modern age. This comprehensive commentary explains all references and allusions in the seminal novel, enabling readers to understand and extract the maximum pleasure from it.
The Homeric epics and the Book of Songs are not just the fountainheads of the Western and Chinese literary traditions; for centuries they played a central role in education and communal life. This title presents the first systematic comparison of the two corpora.
This collection explores the superhero’s evolution from 1930s comics to modern cinema. It examines how iconic heroes like Superman, Batman, and the Avengers reflect the historical contexts of their eras, from the Great Depression to the Cold War and beyond.
The essays gathered here discuss postcolonialism as a transdisciplinary field of passages that negotiate among diverse, yet interrelated, cultural fields.
This book explores narrative as a way of working through trauma. It offers illuminating perspectives on “narrating our healing”: the re-creating of life narratives shattered by trauma and the search for meaning when all meaning seems to have been lost.
Discover the surprising dialogue between East and West. This uplifting book reveals a history of mutual influence, from the common ground of Confucius and Socrates to China’s unexpected impact on Western thinkers like Nietzsche and T.S. Eliot.
This anthology revisits rural areas and their representations in contemporary writing, in both popular and high culture, in order to draw a global landscape of current rural areas and new regionalities.
Though he had a proud and clear aim, in the end, Augustus was defeated by his own persistence. Using contemporaneous sources and Augustus’ own words, Judge’s study explores this downfall. It also argues for the primacy of original sources in historical interpretation.
This is the first book to explore color history in Asia. Color is a language of signals, associated with changes in society, economic development, and dynasties. A valuable resource for practitioners of art and design, it offers a new perspective on Chinese aesthetics.
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