What Would Cervantes Do?: Navigating Post-Truth with Spanish Baroque Literature 9780228009306

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What Would Cervantes Do?: Navigating Post-Truth with Spanish Baroque Literature
 9780228009306

Table of contents :
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue The Deadly Devolution of Language
Part One True Lies and Other Rules of Engagement
1 Reality Entitlement
2 The Imagination of the Possible
3 The Art of the Real
4 The Apocalypse Will Not Be Televised!
5 From Breaking Bad to Breaking Worse
6 Playing the Game
Part Two He Said, She Said
7 Not Your Father’s Classroom
8 The Poison of Purity
9 Her Weapon
10 A Homeopathic Cure for Patriarchy
Part Three A Cervantine Toolkit for the Post-Truth Age
11 Revelations of a Glass Man
12 A Posthumous Lesson
13 Surviving the Post-Truth Age
Epilogue Looking for Relevance in All the Right Places
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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