Cervantes'Novelas ejemplares have provents to classify, as they challenge, both their genre and their declared exemplariness. This study argues that the key to the Novelas' generic invations, as well as their ultimate lesson, is Cervantes' development of a social ideology of marriage based on ideal love. By leading his idealized young protagonists away from families threatened or shattered by the violence of desire and inexorably toward the formation of a new family by means of a marriage endorsed by parental, caste and Church authorities, Cervantes proposes a cure both social and literary for the disorder and disintegration of his uncertain age. The study concludes that the Novelas contain a vision that is both conservative and radical in its insight.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN-10
0820419060
ISBN-13
9780820419060
eBay Product ID (ePID)
128930901
Product Key Features
Author
Theresa Ann Sears
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Anthologies
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Issn
1054-1403
Series Part/Volume Number
3
First Published
1993
Series Title
Studies on Cervantes and His Time
Author Biography
The Author: Theresa Ann Sears is an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Classics at the University of Maine (Orono). She received her B.A. from Northern Illinois University, her M.A. from the University of Chicago, and her Ph.D. from Cornell University. She has published articles on Medieval and Golden Age literature, as well as Medievalism in Spain.