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'sNovelas 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.

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'sNovelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic readership.
An extensive general Introduction places theNovelas 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 ofeutrapelia implicit in theNovelas, 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.

Cervantes's Exemplary Prologue - Stephen Boyd
Enchantment and Irony: ReadingLa gitanilla - William Clamurro
The Play of Desire:El amante liberal andEl casamiento engañoso y El coloquio de los perros - Peter Dunn
Language as Object of Representaion inRinconete y Cortadillo - A K G Paterson
Now you see it, now you... see it again? The Dynamics of Doubling inLa española inglesa
Soldiers and Satire inEl licenciado Vidriera - Stephen Rupp
Exemplary Rape: The Central Problem of La fuerza de la sangre - Anthony John Lappin
Remorse, Retribution and Redemption inLa fuerza de la sangre : Spanish and English Perspectives [with Trudi Darby] - B. W. Ife
Remorse, Retribution and Redemption inLa fuerza de la sangre : Spanish and English Perspectives [with B. W. Ife] - T L Darby
Free Thinking inEl celoso extremeño - Paul Lewis-Smith
Performances of Pastoral inLa ilustre fregona: Games within the Game - D. Gareth Walters
Cervantine Traits inLa dos doncellas andLa señora Cornelia - Idoya Puig
The Peculiar Arrangement ofEl casamiento engañoso andEl coloquio de los perros - E.T. Aylward
Eutrapelia and Examplarity in theNovelas ejemplares - Colin Thompson
`Entre parejas anda el juego'/`All a Matter of Pairs': Reflections on Some Characters in theNovelas ejemplares - Jose Montero Reguera