Novelas Ejemplares

Author : Stephen F. Boyd
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1855661187

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A Companion to Cervantes's Novelas Ejemplares by Stephen F. Boyd Pdf

This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading Cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic readership. This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic readership. An extensive general Introduction places the Novelas in the context of Cervantes's life and work; provides basic information about their content, composition, internal ordering, publication, and critical reception, gives detailed consideration to the contemporary literary-theoretical issues implicit in the title, and outlines and contributes to the key critical debates on their variety, unity, exemplarity, and supposed 'hidden mystery'. After a series of chapters on the individual stories, the volume concludes with two survey essays devoted, respectively, to the understanding of eutrapelia implicit in the Novelas, andto the dynamics of the character pairing that is one of their salient features. Detailed plot summaries of each of the stories, and a Guide to Further Reading are supplied as appendices. Stephen Boyd is a lecturer in the Department of Hispanic Studies of University College Cork.

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Aris & Phillips Hispanic Class
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780856687693

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Novelas Ejemplares by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

Miguel de Cervantes is probably the greatest writer of the Spanish Golden Age, whose influence on the Spanish language has been profound. Readers who know Cervantes only as the author of Don Quijote will be surprised and delighted by what they find in the Novelas ejemplares, published in 1613 and whose composition spanned a decade and more preceding their publication. Don Quijote may be the most celebrated novel in western literature, but the Novelas ejemplares are among its most unjustly neglected masterpieces. They consist of twelve long short stories or short novels, each quite unlike the others. The geographical contrast alone could not be sharper, with settings ranging from the Aegean to the Caribbean and from Britain to North Africa. The stories teem with characters drawn from an equally broad social spectrum, from the new, affluent nobility to self-made merchants, feisty women, confidence tricksters, criminals and excluded minorities. Scarcely a contemporary conflict goes unreferenced, scarcely an important European town or city goes unvisited, while many,especially in Spain, play a major role in the economic, social and political context of the stories. Furthermore none of the major fictional genres of Cervantes's time is missing from the rich mix of literary allusion designed to appeal to a well-read, metropolitan audience.The Novelas ejemplares are a narrative tour de force, an exhibition of sophisticated story-telling, daringly original in concept, executed with subtlety and imagination, wide-ranging, entertaining and amusing, to be read for pleasure as well as profit. Taken together, they provide an overview of many of Cervantes's recurring themes - the complexity of human nature and the unpredictability of human behaviour. They provide a series of working models of what happens when people are put under extreme pressure, all viewed from Cervantes's typically ironic standpoint. A modern English translation was not available until the original appearance of the versions that follow, in four volumes, in 1992. Now for the first time all twelve stories are collected in one volume. For the second fully updated edition Barry Ife's authoritative General Introduction has been re-written and more of the important original preliminaries have been edited and translated so that the reader has a greater sense of the context of the 1613 publication. Specifically these are the four aprobaciones the work received and Cervantes's dedication to the Count of Lemos, both translated into English for the first time.

Author : William H. Clamurro
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739193488

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Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares by William H. Clamurro Pdf

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.

Author : Joseph V. Ricapito
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781557532046

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Cervantes's Novelas Ejemplares by Joseph V. Ricapito Pdf

"Ricapito's amply documented study of the Gypsy in Spain, the complex political relationship between Spain and England, and the Italo-Hispanic cultural relations of the period point up new areas of inquiry hitherto lacking in the study of Cervantes' "La gitanilla, La espaola inglesa, " and "La seora Cornelia.""--Dominick Finella, author of "Pastoral Themes and Forms in Cervantes' Fiction."

Author : Miguel de Cervantes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780486451527

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Three Exemplary Novels/Tres Novelas Ejemplares by Miguel de Cervantes Pdf

From the creator of Don Quixote, the most famous figure in Spanish literature, comes this trio of novellas: "La gitanilla," a gypsy romance; "El coloquio de los perros," a dialogue between two dogs; and "Rinconete y Cortadillo," a day in the underworld of 18th-century Seville. Introduction, new English translation, and notes.

Author : Dana B. Drake
Publisher : New York : Garland
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015013347680

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Cervantes' Novelas Ejemplares by Dana B. Drake Pdf

Author : Joseph V. Ricapito
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015040579974

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Formalistic Aspects of Cervantes's Novelas Ejemplares by Joseph V. Ricapito Pdf

This study examines the narrative features and numerous textual aspects of the Novelas ejemplares, and also takes into consideration certain external aspects like intertextual features and specific concerns within narratology.

Author : Paul R. Olson
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1557533415

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Great Chiasmus by Paul R. Olson Pdf

In The Great Chiasmus, Paul R. Olson explores the use of the chiasmus in the work of Miguel de Unamuno. The chiasmus, a reversal in the order of words or parts of speech in parallel phrases, appears on a variety of levels, from brief microstructures (blanca como la nieve y como la nieve fria), to the narrative structures of entire novel. Olson even suggests the chiasmus encompasses the stages in Unamuno's novelistic work, forming a chiasmus that can be schematized as ABC: CBA. As a phenomenon of enclosure, the chiasmus is related to other enclosing phenomena such as the image of Chinese boxes and the mise en abyme. These structures, three-dimensional version of the chiasmus, are also frequent in Unamuno's texts. The chiasmus is also found on the conceptual level, in which Unamuno regards apparent contraries as freely reversible and thus identical. From early adulthood he was fascinated by the Hegelian idea of the identity of pure Being and pure Nothingness, and that concept provides the structure underlying a wide variety of his paradoxes and verbal conceits. In this connection, Unamuno explores concepts usually considered opposites, such as mind and body or spirit and matter. Olson's close readings of the texts in terms of this structure lead to observations on Spanish history, events in Unamuno's life, the psychological dimensions of his characters, and the authorial self that is found within his texts.

Author : Ruth S. El Saffar
Publisher : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015004751379

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Novel to Romance: a Study of Cervantes's Novelas Ejemplares by Ruth S. El Saffar Pdf

Author : Lee Ford Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Discourse analysis, Narrative
ISBN : UCR:31210010605903

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A Narratological Study of Cervantes's Novelas Ejemplares by Lee Ford Wilson Pdf

Author : Paul Michael Johnson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487507510

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Affective Geographies by Paul Michael Johnson Pdf

By reading the works of Miguel de Cervantes through the history of emotion, this book defies a series of long-standing commonplaces about the author's writing and the Mediterranean region at large.

Author : Thomas R. Hart
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813132606

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Cervantes' Exemplary Fictions by Thomas R. Hart Pdf

Author : Andrea Morris,Margaret Parker
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443809207

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Celebrations and Connections in Hispanic Literature by Andrea Morris,Margaret Parker Pdf

The volume Celebrations and Connections in Hispanic Literature is itself a celebration of a tradition of scholarly dialogue in a relaxed, festive atmosphere. The articles included here began as papers presented at the 25th Anniversary Edition of the Biennial Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, held in Baton Rouge Louisiana, February 23-24, 2006. Each of the authors responds in innovative ways to the idea of connecting texts, contexts, and genres, as well as to the disconnect that is often present between what we perceive as “Hispanic” identity and the experience of those left on the margin. Topics include “Celebrating and Rewriting Difference: (De)colonized Identities,” “Word and Image in the Spanish Golden Age,” and “Latin American Literature and Politics,” among others. The collection is demonstrative of current trends in Hispanic literary and cultural criticism, which are increasingly less bound by traditional regional and temporal constructs. While each author’s research is rooted in a specific socio-historic context, their combined contributions to the present volume provide a far-reaching perspective that expands the notion of “text” to go beyond the literary and engage a multitude of disciplines. “…it emphasizes the often illuminating connections among literary and cultural texts which can be drawn when one conceives of Hispanism and its literary and cultural fields as shaped by trends and issues, rather than divided by periods and regions (...) What strikes me most is the newness of each piece. While each is very well informed, none rehearses old historical or theoretical ground more than is absolutely necessary, but rather presents either a new or overlooked text or offers a new approach.” Leslie Bary, University of Louisiana, Lafayette “An impressive array of well-established and younger scholars has produced a volume whose scope is the entire Hispanic world extending from the Golden Age to the contemporary era. (...) This volume will be of interest to all scholars and critics of Hispanic literature as well as to historians and political scientists. Many of the essays challenge traditional assumptions about the colonization of the Hispanic world as well as the motivations for the revolutions for independence whose influence is still strongly alive in contemporary treatments of fundamental questions of national identity, race, class, and gender.” C. Chris Soufas, Jr., Tulane University

Author : Esther Fernández,Adrienne L. Martin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487538934

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Drawing the Curtain by Esther Fernández,Adrienne L. Martin Pdf

Miguel de Cervantes’s experimentation with theatricality is frequently tied to the notion of revelation and disclosure of hidden truths. Drawing the Curtain showcases the elements of theatricality that characterize Cervantes’s prose and analyses the ways in which he uses theatricality in his own literary production. Bringing together the works of well-known scholars, who draw from a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches, this collection demonstrates how Cervantes exploits revelation and disclosure to create dynamic dramatic moments that surprise and engage observers and readers. Hewing closely to Peter Brook’s notion of the bare or empty stage, Esther Fernández and Adrienne L. Martín argue that Cervantes’s omnipresent concern with theatricality manifests not only in his drama but also in the myriad metatheatrical instances dispersed throughout his prose works. In doing so, Drawing the Curtain sheds light on the ways in which Cervantes forces his readers to engage with themes that are central to his life and works, including love, freedom, truth, confinement, and otherness.

Author : Diana de Armas Wilson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400861798

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Allegories of Love by Diana de Armas Wilson Pdf

In the work he considered his masterpiece, Persiles and Sigismunda, Cervantes finally explores the reality of woman--an abstraction largely idealized in his earlier writing. Traditional critics have perpetuated this disembodied ideal woman: "Every Man," claimed the translators of the 1706 Don Quixote, has "some darling Dulcinea of his Thoughts." As Diana de Armas Wilson shows, however, Cervantes himself envisioned the radical embodiment of "Dulcinea" in the later Persiles, a pan-European Renaissance allegory. Wilson illuminates Cervantes's strategic use of the ancient genre of Greek romance to contest various chivalric fictions about women, love, and marriage--fictions collapsing under the constraints of an emerging bourgeois culture. Taking as her subject Cervantes's erotic imperative--to leave behind "barbaric" notions of love in quest of a new conceptual space--Wilson demonstrates how the heroes of the Persiles, unlike Don Quixote, learn to cross the borders of difference. Their journey toward marriage is illustrated by thirteen inset "exemplary novels," perhaps the most exploratory of Cervantes's writings. Allegories of Love not only examines the fundamental importance of sexual and cultural difference in Cervantes's last romance, but also reveals the historical conditions of representation itself during the late Renaissance. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.