Through the Shattering Glass: Cervantes and the Self-Made World

by Nicholas Spadaccini and Jenaro Taléns

Ever since the early 1970s when Foucault identified Don Quixote as the first "modernist" novel and, more recently, Milan Kundera positioned Cervantes at the crux of an alternative historical trajectory of the Western novel, the legacy of Cervantes has figured prominently in discussions about problems of representation and production in contemporary literature. In this work, Spadaccini and Talens take the metaphor of the mirror (which has played central...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816622639
• ISBN13: 9780816622634
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"