Metacritical Cervantes

Metacritical approaches to Miguel de Cervantes’s prose, poems, and plays are nothing new. Lingering in the shadows of the great literary questions that have given form to the field of Cervantes studies,2 metacritical concerns have always been a formative factor in our understanding of the author, his work, and the state of modern genres such as the novel. Despite their lack of direct visibility over the last four centuries, scholars and lay readers of Cervantes have pondered metacritical qu...