William H. Clamurro

Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares (eBook, ePUB)

Reading their Lessons from His Time to Ours

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739193488
• Artikelnr.: 43978676

Autorenporträt

William H. Clamurro is professor of Spanish at Emporia State University.

Inhaltsangabe

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