http://arcade.stanford.edu/category/tags/cervantes The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-ac http://arcade.stanford.edu/novel-and-origins-of-modern-philosophy <p class="MsoNormal">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, and replacing them with the first attempt at a kind of radical phenomenology.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/novel-and-origins-of-modern-philosophy">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/novel-and-origins-of-modern-philosophy#comments Cervantes Descartes fiction novel philosophy http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1632 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:18:09 -0800 William Egginton 1632 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/nothing-succeeds-failure <p class="MsoNormal">In early 1614 a royal censor named Márquez Torres was reading the manuscript of the second part of <i>Don Quixote</i>, to be released the following year, when he got into a conversation with some visiting dignitaries in the company of the French ambassador.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/nothing-succeeds-failure">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/nothing-succeeds-failure#comments Cervantes critique fiction politics http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1572 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:25:41 -0700 William Egginton 1572 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/fictional-world <p>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 <i>In Defense of Religious Moderation</i>. Looking back over those posts I can see the progression of the project, even down to the change of title, and relive some of the debates that informed it and criticisms that enriched it.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/fictional-world">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/fictional-world#comments Cervantes Europe fiction illusion Spain http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1491 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:38:44 -0700 William Egginton 1491 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/why-i-was-not-now-am-lorca-scholar <p>I sympathize with <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/arcade/cgi-bin/im-not-cervantes-scholar-i-play-one-classroom">Ricardo Padrón</a>.  From one perspective, canonical authors like Cervantes or Lorca seem critically exhausted, and the challenge of saying something new about them is daunting.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/why-i-was-not-now-am-lorca-scholar">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/why-i-was-not-now-am-lorca-scholar#comments Borges Cervantes Lorca poetry scholarly writing http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/357 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:43:15 -0700 Jonathan Mayhew 357 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/im-not-cervantes-scholar-i-play-one-classroom <p>I should put my cards on the table and confess that I am not a <i>cervantista</i>, a specialist in Cervantes.  To some extent, this has to do with my own suspicion that critical commentary on certain texts, like <i>Don Quixote</i>, has become saturated.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/im-not-cervantes-scholar-i-play-one-classroom">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/im-not-cervantes-scholar-i-play-one-classroom#comments Cervantes Don Quixote narrative reader response wonder http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/298 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:19:18 -0700 Ricardo Padrón 298 at http://arcade.stanford.edu