Böcker av Nicholas Spadaccini

Baltasar Gracian, a 17th-century Spanish Jesuit writer, explored the political uses of rhetoric. The essays in this volume focus on the relevance of Gracian in the late-20th century, arguing that the so-called "new world order" is an old idea, stretching back to the sophists of ancient Greece.

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.

In this text, works from the Spanish canon, such as the Spanish "Comedia" and Garcilaso's poetry, and literary areas that have been marginalized, like texts written by 19th-century Spanish women, are considered within the political context of textual editing.