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.

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