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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. 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, and to 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.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, --- Spanish literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese. --- Cervantes. --- Cervantine scholars. --- Character Pairing. --- Exemplarity. --- Novelas Ejemplares. --- Novelas ejemplares. --- Spanish Literature. --- character pairing. --- storytelling.

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In autumn 1397, Viscount Ramon de Perell©đs left the papal palace in Avignon to travel to St Patrick's Purgatory, famous throughout Europe as a gateway to the next world. There, he spent twenty-four hours in an underground cavern, where he claimed to have travelled through the nine fields of Purgatory, accompanied by demons, before entering the Earthly Paradise and catching a glimpse of Heaven. In autumn 1397, Viscount Ramon de Perell©đs, a Catalan nobleman, soldier and diplomat, left the papal palace in Avignon to travel to St Patrick's Purgatory in Donegal, in the northwest of Ireland. St Patrick's Purgatory, an underground cavern on Station Island in Lough Derg, was famous throughout Europe as a gateway to the next world, and the Viscount wanted to ascertain if the soul of his recently deceased friend and master, King John I of Aragon, was, if not in Heaven, then at least in Purgatory. Ramon spent twenty-four hours in the cavern, where he claimed to have travelled through the nine fields of Purgatory, accompanied by demons, before entering the Earthly Paradise and catching a glimpse of Heaven. This book provides a richly annotated translation of Ramon's account of his journeys, both earthly and spiritual. An extensive introduction sets his Viatge al Purgatori in context, examining Ramon's life, the factors that motivated the trip, the history of St Patrick's Purgatory, the literary influences on the account, its historicity, its afterlife and its textual history. The Viatge notably provides important first-hand observations on Gaelic society and customs, by a cosmopolitan traveller with a keen eye for detail, and went on indirectly to inspire Lope de Vega's El mayor prodigio o El purgatorio en vida, and Calder©đn de la Barca's (1600-1681) El purgatorio de San Patricio. Part travelogue, part vision literature, with aspects of hagiography, homily, autobiography, chivalric romance and anthropological essay, the text is a fascinating and entertaining window into a medieval Catalan nobleman's world view.

Purgatory --- Perellós, Ramon, --- Travel --- Saint Patrick's Purgatory (Ireland) --- History --- Sources --- Roda, Ramon, --- Lough Derg Saint Patrick's Purgatory (Ireland) --- St. Patrick's Purgatory (Ireland) --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Diplomats --- Travelers --- Derg, Lough (Donegal, Ireland) --- Avignon. --- Catalan nobleman. --- Donegal. --- Earthly Paradise. --- Heaven. --- St Patrick's Purgatory. --- Viatge al Purgatori. --- Viscount Ramon de Perellós. --- demons. --- diplomat. --- medieval Catalan nobleman. --- next world. --- northwest of Ireland. --- papal palace. --- soldier.