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Brian Brewer

Oct 1, 2026

8:49
So tell us about that and maybe the types of problems that you explore.
8:53
Uh, well, sure.
8:54
Well, this is, really this arises from, um, the way that I think about Cervantes' Poetics and how he organizes different levels of materials and how all this sort of non-literary stuff that he incorporates into his fiction gets treated within a poetic framework, which is based on rigid hierarchies, um, and, um, I guess corporate identities.
9:21
So, you know, the nobility have a certain role, and then they have the certain characteristics that go with it.
9:28
And, um, so it's, you know, my work is really about matching those things up.
9:33
So l- looking at the way people talk about money and inflation and international trade, and just, uh, all that kind of thing.
9:42
We obviously don't use those terms, but all those concepts, and then how Cervantes turns that into literature and aligns different things, different topics with different characters in different situations and different styles.

27 MINS LATER

37:17
They wouldn't necessarily go to someone from Hispanic studies who has expertise in the area from centuries ago, but it might be very valuable if they did.

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