Knowing Fictions
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-0-8122-5261-3 (ISBN)
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.
Barbara Fuchs is Professor of Spanish and English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her books include The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature and Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain, as well as the translations "The Abencerraje" and "Ozmin and Daraja": Two Sixteenth-Century Novellas from Spain and Cervantes's "The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana": Two Plays of Captivity, all of which are available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Introduction
Chapter 1. Imperial Picaresques: La Lozana Andaluza and Spanish Rome
Chapter 2. Picaresque Captivity: The Viaje de Turquía and its Cervantine Iterations
Chapter 3. "O Te Digo Verdades o Mentiras": Crediting the Pícaro in Guzmán de Alfarache
Chapter 4. Cervantes' Skeptical Picaresques and the Pact of Fictionality
Postscript. The Fact of Fiction
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Erscheinungsdatum | 23.11.2020 |
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Reihe/Serie | Haney Foundation Series |
Zusatzinfo | 3 halftones |
Verlagsort | Pennsylvania |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8122-5261-6 / 0812252616 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8122-5261-3 / 9780812252613 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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