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Tags: networks, Urbanism, fictionThe growth of city networks and the expansion of transnational city collaboration have been among the most dynamic features of global governance over the last decade....
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View ArticleThe Insight of Ignorance: Shakespeare and Cervantes at 400
Tags: Cervantes, Shakespeare, 400th Anniversary, character, horizons, early modern, early modern literature, fictionThis April 23rd, the International Day of the Book, we especially commemorate the...
View ArticleHow Cervantes Made His Characters Seem Real
Tags: Cervantes, fiction, character, humorWith the release of The Man Who Invented Fiction, I thought I would devote this post (my first in quite some time) to highlighting what I feel was the most...
View ArticleMaking Sport of Signs and Similitudes
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View ArticleCervantes' Intent
Tags: fiction, poetry, Cervantes, Aristotle, intention, BoccaccioCritics have long held that, even if Cervantes was at least somewhat aware that his work would be successful, this was only because he...
View ArticleThe Novel and the Origins of Modern Philosophy
Tags: fiction, philosophy, Cervantes, novel, DescartesPopularly known as the father of modern philosophy, René Descartes won that title ostensibly by rejecting traditional modes of intellectual inquiry...
View ArticleNothing Succeeds Like Failure
Tags: politics, fiction, Cervantes, critiqueIn early 1614 a royal censor named Márquez Torres was reading the manuscript of the second part of Don Quixote, to be released the following year, when he...
View ArticleThe Fictional World
Tags: fiction, Cervantes, Spain, Europe, illusionOver the past few years I have used this space mainly as a sounding board for ideas and arguments that I worked into my book In Defense of Religious...
View ArticleIs the Internet Literary?
Tags: literature, fiction, globalization, Wikipedia, Internet, Clay Shirky, Jeremy Rivkin, EmpathyThe world is text. Mallarmé and Flaubert described this possibility at the end of the nineteenth...
View ArticleFabulation and Metahistory: W. G. Sebald and Recent German Holocaust Fiction
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View ArticleGatz
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View ArticleThe Insight of Ignorance: Shakespeare and Cervantes at 400
Tags: Cervantes, Shakespeare, 400th Anniversary, character, horizons, early modern, early modern literature, fictionGraphics by Michelle Jia : Image Flickr ( I, II ) This April 23rd, the International...
View ArticleHow Cervantes Made His Characters Seem Real
Tags: Cervantes, fiction, character, humorGraphics by Michelle Jia : Image Flickr ( I ) With the release of The Man Who Invented Fiction, I thought I would devote this post (my first in quite some...
View ArticleMaking Sport of Signs and Similitudes
For my last post on Cervantes and his “invention of fiction” before handing in my finished manuscript, I wanted to return to one of the most influential interpretations of his work in the twentieth...
View ArticleCervantes' Intent
Critics have long held that, even if Cervantes was at least somewhat aware that his work would be successful, this was only because he knew it was funny, and hoped that, in reading it, as he famously...
View ArticleThe Novel and the Origins of Modern Philosophy
Popularly known as the father of modern philosophy, René Descartes won that title ostensibly by rejecting traditional modes of intellectual inquiry largely associated with commentary on prior texts,...
View ArticleNothing Succeeds Like Failure
In early 1614 a royal censor named Márquez Torres was reading the manuscript of the second part of Don Quixote, to be released the following year, when he got into a conversation with some visiting...
View ArticleThe Fictional World
Over the past few years I have used this space mainly as a sounding board for ideas and arguments that I worked into my book In Defense of Religious Moderation. Looking back over those posts I can see...
View ArticleIs the Internet Literary?
The world is text. Mallarmé and Flaubert described this possibility at the end of the nineteenth century and Derrida proclaimed it again more recently. But now we can say that the world is literature....
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