Tilting Cervantes: Baroque Reflections On Postmodern Culture

The cultures of the Spanish baroque and our own postmodern era are closer than they might appear

Tilting Cervantes examines a number of contemporary cultural texts--from Fight Club and Toy Story to The Matrix and The Moor's Last Sigh--by reflecting them against a cluster of early modern Spanish literary works, principally Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote. Through this series of cross-cultural, cross-epochal comparisons this book explores the ways in which each of these disparate texts illuminates its counterpart through a parallel critical reflection.