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A Companion to Cervantes's Novelas Ejemplares

Authors: Stephen Boyd Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Publication date: 2005 Publication language: Angielski Number of pages: 335 Publication formats: EAN: 9781846153853 ISBN: 9781846153853 Category: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 Publisher's index: - Bibliographic note: -

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This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic readership. An extensive general Introduction places the Novelas in the context of Cervantes's life and work; provides basic information about their content, composition, internal ordering, publication, and critical reception, gives detailed consideration to the contemporary literary-theoretical issues implicit in the title, and outlines and contributes to the key critical debates on their variety, unity, exemplarity, and supposed 'hidden mystery'. After a series of chapters on the individual stories, the volume concludes with two survey essays devoted, respectively, to the understanding of eutrapelia implicit in the Novelas, and to the dynamics of the character pairing that is one of their salient features. Detailed plot summaries of each of the stories, and a Guide to Further Reading are supplied as appendices. Stephen Boyd is a lecturer in the Department of Hispanic Studies of University College Cork.

TOC

  • FRONTCOVER 2
  • CONTENTS 7
  • PREFACE 9
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 10
  • Introduction 11
  • 1. Cervantes’s Exemplary Prologue 57
  • 2. Enchantment and Irony: Reading La gitanilla 79
  • 3. The Play of Desire: El amante liberal and El casamiento engañoso y El coloquio de los perros 95
  • 4. Language as Object of Representation in Rinconete y Cortadillo 114
  • 5. Now You See it, Now You . . . See it Again? The Dynamics of Doubling in La española inglesa 125
  • 6. Soldiers and Satire in El licenciado Vidriera 144
  • 7. Exemplary Rape: The Central Problem of La fuerza de la sangre 158
  • 8. Remorse, Retribution and Redemption in La fuerza de la sangre: Spanish and English Perspectives 182
  • 9. Free-Thinking in EL celoso extremeño 201
  • 10. Performances of Pastoral in La ilustre fregona: Games within the Game 217
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