La Galatea y las expectativas de una tradición literaria: el caso de Teolinda = La Galatea and the Expectations of a Literary Traition: the case of Teolinda

Focusing on the story of the shepherdess Teolinda, this paper studies the clash with pastoral canons in La Galatea. I will underline the fact that this story, in addition to its typical poetic style of pastoral novels, has the structure of an archetypical comedia de enredos (comedy of intrigue), and thus creates an expectation of a happy ending. Nevertheless, with this story and throughout the whole novel, Cervantes systematically denies this possibility and questions the pastoral model of happy endings.