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What would Cervantes do? : navigating post-truth with Spanish Baroque literature / David Castillo and William Egginton.

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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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