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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am thrilled to announce the publication of Bruce Burningham’s
new book, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Tilting Cervantes: Baroque
Reflections on Postmodern Culture</span></i> with the Vanderbilt University
Press. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Tilting Cervantes examines several contemporary texts -<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Fight Club</span></i>, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on"><i><span style='font-style:italic'>Brazil</span></i></st1:place></st1:country-region>,
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Matrix</span></i>, and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The Moor's Last Sigh</span></i>, among others- by
reflecting them against a cluster of early modern Spanish and Latin American
literary works, principally <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Don Quixote</span></i>.
Through a deliberate juxtaposition of these cross-cultural and cross-epochal
texts, this book explores the notion that each of these varied cultural
products can be read -in a very Borgesian manner- as precursors to each other,
especially for contemporary readers who may not come to them in their
“proper” chronological order. At the same time, and within this
larger juxtaposition, this book examines the interrelated baroque and
postmodern preoccupation with mirrors and self-reflexivity, and thus argues that
many postmodern writers and performers do not so much break new ground as
simply rediscover terrain already explored by such baroque literary figures as
Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Francisco de Quevedo, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>For more information, please see the VU Press website:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/bookdetail.asp?book_id=4145">http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/bookdetail.asp?book_id=4145</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Please join me in extending heartfelt congratulations to
Bruce!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Laura<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>Laura
L. Vidler, Ph.D.</span></font></i></b></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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