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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 innovations, 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 ...

Clio, Eros, Thanatos argues that the sentimental mode plays itself out along a scale from the chivalric to the pornographic, thereby encompassing amatory narratives both chaste and erotic. The texts studied - Le Chevalier de la Charette, Cárcel de amor, Celestina, and La Princesse de Clèves - implicate both private and public realms in an irresistible drive toward an impossible unity, the result of which is usually a form of death. Here, desir...