By William H. Clamurro
Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares rival Don Quijote in complexity and value. This booklet analyzes all twelve novelas, looking to light up the inherent tensions among the customarily affirmative resolutions and classes proposed by means of Cervantes's narrators, at the one hand, and the inescapable socio-cultural dissonances and ironies of tale and language, at the different. This examining of the complete assortment unearths the richness and complexity of a number of the less-studied novelas in addition to the outstanding modernity (or postmodernity) of the ultimate textual content.
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