Knowing Fictions - Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World

In Knowing Fictions, Barbara Fuchs engages the picaresque as a set of literary strategies that interrogate the mechanisms of truth-telling itself and shows how 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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Barbara Fuchs

Summary

In Knowing Fictions, Barbara Fuchs engages the picaresque as a set of literary strategies that interrogate the mechanisms of truth-telling itself and shows how 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.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Fuchs
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780812252613
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5261-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies