Exemplary Irony: Cervantes's La señora Cornelia in Context

Abstract

This essay examines how an ironic vision is created in the works of Cervantes and how the writer plays with the intertext. The structure of La señora Cornelia is analyzed in the context of the conventions of Golden Age narrative and as a basis for the developments and innovations to come later from the author of Don Quijote.

Keywords:

• Cervantes
• Las novelas ejemplares
• Don Quijote
• El licenciado Vidriera
• irony
• intertextuality