Author: Judith A. WhitenackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Impenitent Confession of Guzmán de Alfarache
Author: Judith A. WhitenackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Impenitent Confession of Guzmán de Alfarache
Author: Judith A. WhitenackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Autobiography as Burla in the Guzmán de Alfarache
Author: Nina Cox DavisPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838752210
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
This study analyzes the discursive and narratological articulations of subjectivity in Guzman de Alfarache -- the first picaresque novel of Spain's Golden Age. Davis's study demonstrates that while the Guzman appears to affirm the relationships of power and ideologies it represents, its composition underscores the contextual and mutable nature of discourses that structure society.
Confession and Conversion in Guzmán de Alfarache
Author: Judith A. WhitenackConflicts of Discourse
Author: Peter William EvansPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719031922
Category : Spanish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A History of the Spanish Novel
Author: J. A. Garrido ArdilaPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191056464
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The origins of the Spanish novel date back to the early picaresque novels and Don Quixote, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the history of the genre in Spain presents the reader with such iconic works as Galdós's Fortunata and Jacinta, Clarín's La Regenta, or Unamuno's Mist. A History of the Spanish Novel traces the developments of Spanish prose fiction in order to offer a comprehensive and detailed account of this important literary tradition. It opens with an introductory chapter that examines the evolution of the novel in Spain, with particular attention to the rise and emergence of the novel as a genre, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the bearing of Golden-Age fiction in later novelists of all periods. The introduction contextualises the Spanish novel in the circumstances and milestones of Spain's history, and in the wider setting of European literature. The volume is comprised of chapters presented diachronically, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century and others concerned with specific traditions (the chivalric romance, the picaresque, the modernist novel, the avant-gardist novel) and with some of the most salient authors (Cervantes, Zayas, Galdós, and Baroja). A History of the Spanish Novel takes the reader across the centuries to reveal the captivating life of the Spanish novel tradition, in all its splendour, and its phenomenal contribution to Western literature.
The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe
Author: Barbara FuchsPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 148753549X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This interdisciplinary collection explores how the early modern pursuit of knowledge in very different spheres – from Inquisitional investigations to biblical polemics to popular healing – was conditioned by a shared desire for certainty, and how epistemological crises produced by the religious upheavals of early modern Europe were also linked to the development of new scientific methods. Questions of representation became newly fraught as the production of knowledge increasingly challenged established orthodoxies. The volume focuses on the social and institutional dimensions of inquiry in light of political and cultural challenges, while also foregrounding the Hispanic world, which has often been left out of histories of scepticism and modernity. Featuring essays by historians and literary scholars from Europe and the United States, The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe reconstructs the complexity of early modern epistemological debates across the disciplines, in a variety of cultural, social, and intellectual locales.
Knowing Fictions
Author: Barbara FuchsPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812252616
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience grew more distant, strategies designed to convey the act of witnessing came to be a key source of textual authority. From the relación to the captivity narrative, the Hispanic imperial project relied heavily on the first-person authority of genres whose authenticity undergirded the ideological armature of national consolidation, expansion, and conquest. At the same time, increasing pressures for religious conformity in Spain, as across Europe, required subjects to bare themselves before external authorities in intimate confessions of their faith. Emerging from this charged context, the unreliable voice of the pícaro poses a rhetorical challenge to the authority of the witness, destabilizing the possibility of trustworthy representation precisely because of his or her intimate involvement in the narrative. In Knowing Fictions, Barbara Fuchs seeks at once to rethink the category of the picaresque while firmly centering it once more in the early modern Hispanic world from which it emerged. Venturing beyond the traditional picaresque canon, Fuchs traces Mediterranean itineraries of diaspora, captivity, and imperial rivalry in a corpus of texts that employ picaresque conventions to contest narrative authority. By engaging the picaresque not just as a genre with more or less strictly defined boundaries, but as a set of literary strategies that interrogate the mechanisms of truth-telling itself, Fuchs shows how self-consciously fictional picaresque texts effectively encouraged readers to adopt a critical stance toward the truth claims implicit in the forms of authoritative discourse proliferating in Imperial Spain.
Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain
Author: Mary E. BarnardPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442645121
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
These essays examine a variety of cultural objects described or alluded to in books from the Golden Age of Spanish literature, including clothing, paintings, tapestries, playing cards, monuments, materials of war, and even enchanted bronze heads.
The Humble Story of Don Quixote
Author: Cesáreo BanderaPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813214521
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In this original study by Cesáreo Bandera, the intimate connection between the simplicity and humility of the story and its greatness is explored. Other comparisons are also made: the story of the picaresque rogue, on the one hand, and the psychological insights of the pastoral novel, on the other.