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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.
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.
The growing challenges posed by the teaching of early modern texts
to generations less accustomed to reading and analysing literature
makes the need to present these texts in creative and attractive
forms all the more pressing. Cervantes, Lope, Calderon, Quevedo and
Gongora risk being consigned to the past in many centres of
learning if they are not made more accessible to today's learners.
At the same time, new pedagogical methods based on technologies and
multiliteracies afford renewed opportunities to open up these
classic texts to higher education students and to the wider public.
Learners can be encouraged to engage with key works using a variety
of means, including visual media, music and appropriate contextual
parallels. The present volume addresses these concerns and
opportunities by assembling pedagogical expertise and good practice
to facilitate the task of teaching older texts through new
methodologies. It brings together Golden Age scholars from the UK,
Spain and the US, who offer different perspectives and approaches
drawn from their respective academic contexts. As the volume
demonstrates, common concerns clearly exist but so too does the
strong belief that there is much to be shared in terms of
innovative ideas and practical applications for teaching the great
classics of Spain's Golden Age and helping them retain the place
they deservedly occupy in Spanish Studies.
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