Cervantess Novelas Ejemplares - Reading Their Lessons From His Time to Ours

This book offers a thematically oriented reading of the Novelas ejemplares with relevant asides to Cervantes' other works. It takes into account the recent scholarship on the Novelas, and it also reflects the author's experience of teaching Cervantes' works in recent years.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Social Class and the Paradoxes of Privilege

Chapter 2. Women and the Limits of Agency

Chapter 3. Corruption, Collaboration, and the Structure of Society

Chapter 4. Justice, Forgiveness, and the Question of honra

Chapter 5. Syncretic Cultures and the Larger Spain

Chapter 6. How to Read: The Lessons of the Novelas

Conclusion

Bibliography

About the Author

Index

About the author

By William H. Clamurro

Summary

This book offers a thematically oriented reading of the Novelas ejemplares with relevant asides to Cervantes’ other works. It takes into account the recent scholarship on the Novelas, and it also reflects the author’s experience of teaching Cervantes’ works in recent years.

Product details

• Authors: William H. Clamurro, Clamurro William H.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781498526784
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-2678-4
• No. of pages: 156
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, Spanish, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form