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That happens with every genre. Genres are labels. You can attach them to works long after the fact, whether the original creator(s) intended or not. Jules Vern
by kijin 5y ago
That happens with every genre. Genres are labels. You can attach them to works long after the fact, whether the original creator(s) intended or not.
Jules Verne wrote steampunk a century before the term was even coined. Cervantes wrote a novel before novels were a thing (at least in the West), and thereby defined what a novel should look like. The Epic of Gilgamesh predates the Greek tradition of epic poetry by at least a millennium, but nobody denies that it's an epic poem.
- danidiaz 5y agoDon Quixote is windmillpunk! Less facetiously, it's a work informed by the technological developments of its time. http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/cervantes-bulletin-of-the-cervantes-society-of-america--8/html/0278c536-82b2-11df-acc7-002185ce6064_18.html http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/cervantes-bulleti... According to this article https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/2/plank2art.htm https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/2/plank2art.htm "windmills were first erected in La Mancha thirty years or less before Don Quixote was written" and this gives new nuances to Quixote's delusion. That's not the only encounter with "advanced" technology; there's also the episode with the water-powered "fulling-hammers" https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/don-quixote/summary-and-analysis/part-1-chapter-xx https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/don-quixote/summary... Don Quixote also rails against modern military technology like firearms.