The Picaresque
Tradition and Displacement
Ed. Giancarlo Maiorino
Examines one of the major genres of Spanish Renaissance and Baroque literature from contemporary critical perspectives, dealing with those literary works not just as "monuments," but as "documents" where processes of institutionalization, political misreading, and the marginalization of discourses are inscribed.
Introduction
Renaissance Marginalities
Giancarlo Maiorino
- Picaresque Econopoetics: At the Watershed of Living Standards
Giancarlo Maiorino - “Otras cosillas que no digo”: Lazarillo’s Dirty Sex
George A. Shipley - Picturing the Picaresque: Lazarillo and Murillo’s Four Figures on a Step
Luis Beltrán - The Author’s Author, Typography, and Sex: The Fourteenth Mamotreto of La Lozana andaluza
Luis Beltrán - Breaking the Barriers: The Birth of López de Ubeda’s Pícara Justina
Nina Cox Davis - Defining the Picaresque: Authority and the Subject in Guzmán de Alfarache
Carroll B. Johnson - Trials of Discourse: Narrative Space in Quevedo’s Buscón
Edward H. Friedman - Picaresque Elements in Cervantes’s Works
Manuel Durán - Sonnes of the Rogue: Picaresque Relations in England and Spain
Anne J. Cruz - The Protean Picaresque
Howard Mancing
Afterword
Revisiting the Picaresque in Postmodern Times
Francisco J. Sánchez and Nicholas Spadaccini