Cervantes Novelas ejemplares

 

Bibliography

 

Atkinson, William C. 1959. ‘Cervantes, El Pinciano and the Novelas Ejemplares’, in Hispanic Review, 16, pp. 189-208.

 

Casalduero, Joaquín. 1943. ‘Sentido y forma de las Novelas Ejemplares’, in Revista de Filología Hispánica, Buenos Aires, pp. 122-6.

 

Castro, Americo. 1967. ‘La ejemplaridad de las Novelas Ejemplares, in Hacia Cervantes, Madrid.

 

Clamurro, William H. 1977. Beneath the Fiction: the Contrary Worlds of Cervantes’s “Novelas Ejemplares”. New York:………………

 

El Saffar, Ruth. 1974. Novel to romance:  A Study of Cervantes’ Novelas Ejemplares.  Baltimore:  John Hopkins UP.

                         1976. “El casamiento engañoso and El coloquio de los perros”, A Study Guide.  London: Tamesis.

 

Forcione, Alban. 1982. Cervantes and the Humanist Vision:  A Study of Four Exemplary Novels.  Princeton:  Princeton UP.

                           1984. Cervantes and the Mystery of Lawlessness:  A Study of ‘El casamiento engañoso’ and ‘El coloquio de los perros’.  Princeton:  Princeton UP.

 

Hart, Thomas R. 1994. Cervantes’ Exemplary Fictions: a Study of the Novelas Ejemplares. Kentucky.

 

Johnson, Carroll B. 1991. ‘Of Witches and Bitches: Gender, Marginality and Discourse in “El casamiento engañoso” and “El coloquio de los perros”’ in Cervantes (Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America), vol XI (Fall), no. 2, pp………….

 

McKendrick, Melveena.  Cervantes.  Boston:  Little Brown, 1980.

 

Nerlich, Michael and N. Spadaccini eds. 1989. Cervantes’s “Exemplary Novels” and the Adventure of Writing, in Hispanic Issues series. Minneapolis: Prisma Institute (English Faculty Library).

 

Piluso, Robert V.  ‘La fuerza de la sangre:  un análisis estructural, in Hispania, XLVII (1964), pp. 485-90.

 

Williamson, Edwin. 1989. ‘Cervantes as Moralist and Trickster: the Critique of Picaresque Autobiography in “El casamiento engañoso” and “El coloquio de los perros”’, in Essays on Hispanic Themes in Honour of Edward C. Riley, ed. Jennifer Lowe and Philip Swanson, Edinburgh:…………….

 

Woodward, L.J.  ‘El casamiento engañoso y El coloquio de los perros”, in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 36 (1959), pp. 80-7.

 

 

Essay titles

 

1.      ‘Not exemplary but profoundly ambivalent’.  How fair an assessment is this of the Novelas Ejemplares?

2.      ‘Cervantes se halla situado en el cruce entre una edad que muere y otra que nace, y esta doble orientación esta reflejada en todas las esferas de su obra’.  Discuss with reference to the Novelas Ejemplares.

3.      In the sex-war as Cervantes portrays it men are manipulated and controlled by women quite as much as women by men.

4.      Cervantes’s treatment of honor in the Novelas Ejemplares reveals both his humanitarianism and his subservience to the prejudices of his age.

5.      ‘El arte cervantino de novelar intenta crear la ilusión de testimonio directamente vivido y comunicado’.  Discuss with reference to any two novelas.

6.      ‘In moral terms, Cervantes’s prose fiction depicts an restoration of the aberrant hero to a norm of exemplary discretion’.  Discuss with reference to the Novelas Ejemplares.

7.      To what extent may the reader’s gender affect their interpretation of  La fuerza de la sangre?

8.      Consider the relevance of Carrizales’s experiences in youth and middle age, narrated in the early part of  El celoso extremeño, to the “caso” which is the novela’s principle focus.

9.      ‘El coloquio de los perros pits example against preaching and contains a commentary which undercuts commentary by exercising the reader’s right to reply’.  Discuss.

10.   ‘In Cervantes’s Novelas Ejemplares deviancy is either celebrated or condemned from a reassuring viewpoint of middle-class respectability’.  Discuss.

11.     To what extent are the narrators (or is the narrator) of the specified Novelas Ejemplares reliable?

12.     Consider ways in which the realistic and the fantastic are deployed in the specified Novelas Ejemplares, and to what purpose.

13.     ‘En la concepción cervantina del amor, la naturaleza, la razón y las normas sociales deben estar en consonancia;  los fracasos del amor suponen una infracción contra esta armonía’.  Discuss.

14.     Discuss the workings of atonement in the dénouements of El celoso extremeño, La fuerza de la sangre and La ilustre fregona.

15.     ‘For Cervantes, well-adjusted natural instinct is in conformity with social and religious norms:  the perversion of nature undermines them’.  Discuss.

16.     ‘Cervantes’s novelas tend to be variants on the parable of the Prodigal Son’.  Discuss.

17.     Consider the relationship between the physical setting and the theme of the novelas by Cervantes that you have read.

 

 

Rosemary Clark