Freeing himself from the conflicting doctrines of novelistic interpretation, George Peale's innovative study separates El Diablo cojuelo from other Iberian prose works of its time, striking against the critical tendency to align the text with either Lazarillo de Tormes for its picaresque qualities, or the Celestina, for its novelistic ones. Instead, this volume, by re-examining the generic elements of El Diablo cojuelo,...