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What would Cervantes do? : navigating post-truth with Spanish Baroque literature / David Castillo and William Egginton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Castillo, David R., 1967- author.
- Egginton, William, 1969- author.
- Series:
- McGill-Queen's Iberian and Latin American cultures series ; 2.
- McGill-Queen's Iberian and Latin American cultures series ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.
- Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- Spanish literature.
- Information literacy.
- Mass media--Objectivity.
- Mass media.
- Fake news.
- Truthfulness and falsehood in literature.
- Truthfulness and falsehood.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- A timely meditation on the key role the humanities must play in dissecting and combatting all forms of disinformation. Castillo and Egginton offer a tour-de-force commentary on politics and popular culture through critical comparative readings of Western cultural texts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and those of the Spanish Golden Age.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- The Deadly Devolution of Language
- True Lies and Other Rules of Engagement
- Reality Entitlement
- The Imagination of the Possible
- The Art of the Real
- The Apocalypse Will Not Be Televised!
- From Breaking Bad to Breaking Worse
- Playing the Game
- He Said, She Said
- Not Your Father’s Classroom
- The Poison of Purity
- Her Weapon
- A Homeopathic Cure for Patriarchy
- A Cervantine Toolkit for the Post-Truth Age
- Revelations of a Glass Man
- A Posthumous Lesson
- Surviving the Post-Truth Age
- Looking for Relevance in All the Right Places
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780228009306
- 0228009308
- 9780228009313
- 0228009316
- OCLC:
- 1265301463
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