Approaches to Teaching Lazarillo De Tormes and the Picaresque Traditio

Informationen zum Autor Anne J. Cruz is professor of Spanish at the University of Miami. Her research interests focus on gender and genre studies in early modern Spain; she has published on Petrarchism in Garcilaso and Boscán and on the picaresque novel, and, with Mihoko Suzuki, she is preparing a collection of essays on early modern women rulers. She is the editor of Hispanisms, a series with University of Illinois Press, and is president of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. Klappentext In 1554! Lazarillo de Tormes! a slim! unassuming little volume! unsigned by the author! made its first published appearance in the bookstalls important mercantile centres in Spain and the Netherlands. Since then! as narratives of pícaros - and pícaras - continued to follow in the footsteps of Lázaro's fictional life! picaresque literature developed into a major genre in literary studies that remains popular to this day. Yet the genre's definition is anything but simple! as the diversity of this volume demonstrates.

Product details

• Authors: Anne J. (EDT) Cruz
• Assisted by: Anne J Cruz (Editor), Anne J. Cruz (Editor), Dr. Anne J. Cruz (Editor)
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn Of Amer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2009
• EAN: 9781603290173
• ISBN: 978-1-60329-017-3
• No. of pages: 173
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature; Approaches to Teaching World Literature 106; Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature 106
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology