Through The Shattering Glass: Cervantes And The Self-made World Cervantes And The Self-made World

"By considering the dialectical nature of Cervantes' work as a whole, Spadaccini and Talens broaden our understanding of the uniqueness of his art. . . . Through the Shattering Glass is a welcome and highly significant contribution to Cervantine scholarship." Hispania. "Offers an important new approach to Cervantes's works, which have been studied in toto by relatively few critics." Introduction: The Constructed Mirror; Or, The World As A Text -- Ch. 1. Poetry As Autobiography -- Ch. 2. Theater, Literature, And Social History -- Ch. 3. On Theater As Narrativity -- Ch. 4. Narrativity And The Dialogic: The Multiple Eye -- Epilogue: All That Heaven Allows; Or, The Self-made World. Nicholas Spadaccini And Jenaro Talens. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 195-201) And Index. A provocative new interpretation and approach to the poetic, dramatic and narrative texts of Cervantes, building on the increased attention given to the writer since the 1970s when Foucault identified "Don Quixote" as the first "modernist" novel.