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Cervantes, the Golden Age, and the Battle for Cultural Identity in 20th-Century Spain (Hardcover)
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Cervantes, the Golden Age, and the Battle for Cultural Identity in 20th-Century Spain (Hardcover)
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Studies that connect the Spanish 17th and 20th centuries usually do
so through a conservative lens, assuming that the blunt imperialism
of the early modern age, endlessly glorified by Franco's
dictatorship, was a constant in the Spanish imaginary. This book,
by contrast, recuperates the thriving, humanistic vision of the
Golden Age celebrated by Spanish progressive thinkers, writers, and
artists in the decades prior to 1939 and the Francoist Regime. The
hybrid, modern stance of the country in the 1920s and early 1930s
would uniquely incorporate the literary and political legacies of
the Spanish Renaissance into the ambitious design of a forward,
democratic future. In exploring the complex understanding of the
multifaceted event that is modernity, the life story and literary
opus of Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) acquires a new
significance, given the weight of the author in the poetic and
political endeavors of those Spanish left-wing reformists who
believed they could shape a new Spanish society. By recovering
their progressive dream, buried for almost a century, of incipient
and full Spanish modernities, Ana Maria G. Laguna establishes a
more balanced understanding of both the modern and early modern
periods and casts doubt on the idea of a persistent conservatism in
Golden Age literature and studies. This book ultimately serves as a
vigorous defense of the canonical as well as the neglected critical
traditions that promoted Cervantes's humanism in the 20th century.
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