Cervantes's Novelas Ejemplares
Reading their Lessons from His Time to Ours- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2015
Summary
Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares: Reading their Lessons from His Time to Ours offers a fresh approach to the Novelas ejemplares (1613) of Cervantes in which the twelve novelas are not analyzed individually nor on the basis of generic definitions but rather from a thematic perspective. In this way, certain pertinent themes and problems are explored by grouping the relevant novelas as they dramatize these problems, often leaving the reader with unresolved “conclusions,” and in other instances offering an affirmative solution. The issues examined include the ironies and injustices of social class, the problem of honra and justice, the complex hostilities and interactions of distinct cultures, and the problem of finding a seventeenth-century work of fiction relevant and stimulating to the twenty-first-century reader.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2015
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-9347-1
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7391-9348-8
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 131
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgements No access
- Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
- 1 Social Class and the Paradoxes of Privilege No access Pages 7 - 20
- 2 Women and the Limits of Agency No access Pages 21 - 42
- 3 Corruption, Collaboration, and the Structure of Society No access Pages 43 - 62
- 4 Justice, Forgiveness, and the Question of honra No access Pages 63 - 82
- 5 Syncretic Cultures and the Larger Spain No access Pages 83 - 102
- 6 How to Read: The Lessons of the Novelas No access Pages 103 - 116
- Conclusion No access Pages 117 - 124
- Bibliography No access Pages 125 - 128
- Index No access Pages 129 - 130
- About the Author No access Pages 131 - 131





