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Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares : Reading their Lessons from His Time to Ours

By William H. Clamurro

Book information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2015
ISBN
9780739193488, 9780739193471
LCC
PQ6324.Z5C54 2015
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
842 kB (862216 bytes)
Pages
143\0
Time added
2023-08-14 21:43:38
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Description

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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