Cervantes's Exemplary Novels and the Adventure of Writing

Ed. Michael Nerlich and Nicholas Spadaccini

Provides a philosophical, critical, and political reading of Cervantes's satirical novellas as they highlight the problem of language and communication.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Juan Andrés to Alban Forcione. One the Critical Reception of the Novelas Ejemplares

Michael Nerlich

1. Cervantes’s Exemplary Subjects

   Anthony J. Cascardi

2. Theater Within the Novel: “Mass” Audience and Individual Reader in La Gitanilla and Riconete y Cortadillo

   Francisco J. Sánchez

3. The Function of Madness in El Licenciado Vidriera

   Sybil Dümchen

4. Cervantes’s La fuerza de la sangre and the Rhetoric of Power

   Edward H. Friedman

5. Cervantes’s La fuerza de la sangre and the Force of Negation

   Dina De Rentiis

6. Dynamism and Spatial Structure in Las dos doncellas

   Caroline Schmauser

7. Cervantes and the Dialogic World

   Nicholas Spadaccini and Jenaro Talens

8. On the Philosophical Dimension of El casamiento engañoso and El coloquio de los perros

   Michael Nerlich

Afterword: Exemplarity, Modernity, and the Discriminating Games of Reading

Alban K. Forcione