445 What Would Cervantes Do? (with David Castillo and William Egginton)
The History of Literature
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What a Dissident Was?
The catholic church in spain was its own institution, apart in some ways, not entirely, under the sway of rome. So when you ask, in essence, what servantes would have been a dissident, one really has to take into account how incredibly dangerous it would be to be an out and out dicident at the time. Censorship, of course, was also a community because the very same people who were writing those histories that d just mentioned also would serve as censors. There wold be some in and out and some play among them, some mutual kidding and razing. And all this ends up coming out in the textures of the books written at
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