Miguel de Cervantes’ daring in literary experimentation was both perfectly suited to the time in which he lived, and an exponential step forward in literary art, specifically in the genre he perfected, the modern novel. Susan Byrne, Professor of Hispanic Studies and Chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas introduces in this podcast this major figure in Spanish culture.

Presented by Maria Jenell Nicolas.

Books and publications by Susan Byrne

Law and History in Cervantes’ Don Quijote, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2012.

Ficino in Spain, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2015.

“Las leyes en el Quijote, de 1605 a 1615”, in Hélène Tropé and Philippe Rabaté (Eds.), Autour de Don Quichotte de Miguel de Cervantes: Hommage à Augustin Redondo et à Jean Canavaggio, Paris, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle (Travaux du CRES), 2015, pp. 123-30.

“Coloquio, murmurar, canes muti: Cervantes y los jesuitas”, in Cuadernos AISPI [Associazione Ispanisti Italiani]: Estudios de lenguas y literaturas Ibéricas, 5 (Robert Lauer and Caterina Ruta, Eds.: Un paseo entre los centenarios Cervantinos), 2015, pp. 81-95.

“‘Essentiae’ en Ficino y en el Quijote (II, 16): las letras y la preceptiva cervantina”, in Nuria Morgado and Lía Schwartz (Eds.), Cervantes ayer y hoy, New York, Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 2016, pp. 3-21.

“Transcendence as Hyperbole in La fuerza de la sangre.”, in Cervantes: Bulletin of the CSA, 38.1, 2018, pp. 41-62.

“Chapter 2. Constitutions”, in A Cultural History of Law, vol. 3 (Peter Goodrich, Ed.: A Cultural History of Law in the Early Modern Age (1500-1680)), London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, pp. 39-64.

Books and publications by Miguel de Cervantes

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, Las novelas ejemplares, Harry Sieber (Ed.), 2 vols., Madrid, Cátedra, 1997.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, Celina Sabor de Cortazar and Isaías Lerner (Eds.), 2 vols., Buenos Aires, Eudeba, 2005.

Books and publications about Miguel de Cervantes

Close, Anthony, Cervantes and the Comic Mind of His Age, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000.

De Armas, Frederick, Quixotic Frescoes: Cervantes and Italian Renaissance Art, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2006.

Egginton, William, The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World, New York, Bloomsbury, 2016.

Lerner, Isaías, Lecturas de Cervantes, Málaga, Universidad de Málaga, 2005.

Núñez Rivera, Valentín, Cervantes y los géneros de la ficción, Madrid, Prosa Barroca y Sial, 2015.

Riley, E. C. (1962), Cervantes’s Theory of the Novel, Newark, DE, Juan de la Cuesta, 1992.

Ruíz Pérez, Pedro, “Cervantes y la poesía”, in Cervantes Virtual

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