{"product_id":"what-would-cervantes-do-navigating-posttruth-with-spanish-baroque-literature-9780228008149","title":"What Would Cervantes Do  Navigating PostTruth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWhat Would Cervantes Do? i\u003c\/i\u003es a persuasive exercise in making comparisons, and an enlightening guide both to seventeenth-century Spain and to our current circumstances.” \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSupplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Castillo and Egginton are state-of-the-art readers of early modern Spanish literature and diligent investigators, well versed in theory. Castillo and Egginton recognize, eloquently and convincingly, that the baroque sensibility of 17th-century Spain – self-consciously obscure – can help to explain, or further complicate, the ups and downs of today’s world and media. Highly recommended.” \u003cem\u003eChoice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The volume closes with a section whose title could well serve as a metonymy for the entire book: “A Cervantine Toolkit for the Post-Truth Age.” The authors analyze, among other related phenomena, the extreme commodification of information on social media, which has led to “our current, deeply siloed version of the Internet [which is] the perfect marketplace of alt-realities”. Ultimately, WWCD emphasizes the crucial role of the humanities in addressing and combating misinformation.” \u003cem\u003eCervantes: Journal of the Cervantes Society of America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534922154327,"sku":"9780228008149","price":108.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780228008149.jpg?v=1755858047","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-would-cervantes-do-navigating-posttruth-with-spanish-baroque-literature-9780228008149","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}