Cervantes and the Mystery of Lawlessness: A Study of El Casamiento Enganoso y el Coloquio de los Perros

by Alban K. Forcione

Overview

This examination of the last two tales of Cervantes' Novelas ejemplares reveals the Christian Humanist tradition implicit in the most elusive works of the collection. In his study of El casamiento enganoso and El coloquio de los perros Alban Forcione demonstrates that Cervantes retained in their ostensible pessimism the themes of Erasmus' vision of the renovation of Christianity.

Originally published in 1984.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691640624
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	04/19/2016
Series:	Princeton Legacy Library , #12
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

• FrontMatter, pg. i
• Contents, pg. vii
• Introduction. "Desatinos De Proposito": The Ugly Shapes of Satire, pg. 1
• Chapter I. The Anatomy of the Monster, pg. 21
• Chapter II. Cervantes' Apocalypse: The Descent into the Grave, pg. 59
• Chapter III. The Imaginative Unity of the Colloquy. The Center and the Parts, pg. 100
• Chapter IV. God's Infinite Mercy: El Casamiento Enganoso as a Christian Miracle, pg. 131
• Chapter V. The Survival of the Humanist Vision, pg. 146
• Chapter VI. Language: Divine or Diabolical Gift?, pg. 187
• Index, pg. 237