Beneath the Fiction : The Contrary Worlds of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares.
Title:
Beneath the Fiction : The Contrary Worlds of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares.
Author:
Clamurro, William H.
ISBN:
9781453910061
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (336 pages)
Series:
Studies on Cervantes and His Time ; v.7
Studies on Cervantes and His Time
Contents:
Contents -- Preface xi -- Introduction: The Contrary Worlds of the Novelas ejemplares 1 -- Chapter One: Value and Identity: La gitanilla 15 -- Chapter Two: The Frontiers of Identity: El amante liberal 41 -- Chapter Three: The Carnival of Crime: Rinconete y Cortadillo 71 -- Chapter Four: The Sins of the Father: La española inglesa 99 -- Chapter Five: Anonymity, Madness, and the Decadence of Empire: El licenciado Vidriera 123 -- Chapter Six: Redemption and Identity: La fuerza de la sangre 149 -- Chapter Seven: Eros, Material, and the Architecture of Desire: El celoso extremeño 163 -- Chapter Eight: Identity and Social Order: La ilustre fregona 191 -- Chapter Nine: Pathos and Melodrama: Las dos doncellas and La señora Cornelia 211 -- Chapter Ten: Confession, Commentary, and the End of Fiction: El casamiento engañoso and El coloquio de los perros 247 -- Conclusion: Closing the Circle 291 -- Bibliography 295 -- Index 313 -- BM 1 319.
Abstract:
Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares rival Don Quijote in complexity and significance. This book analyzes all twelve novelas, seeking to illuminate the inherent tensions between the usually affirmative resolutions and lessons proposed by Cervantes's narrators, on the one hand, and the inescapable socio-cultural dissonances and ironies of story and language, on the other. This reading of the entire collection reveals the richness and complexity of many of the less-studied novelas as well as the striking modernity (or postmodernity) of the final text.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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