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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Renaissance Marginalities

Giancarlo Maiorino

  1. Picaresque Econopoetics: At the Watershed of Living Standards

    Giancarlo Maiorino

  2. “Otras cosillas que no digo”: Lazarillo’s Dirty Sex

    George A. Shipley

  3. Picturing the Picaresque: Lazarillo and Murillo’s Four Figures on a Step

    Janis A. Tomlinson and Marcia L. Welles

  4. The Author’s Author, Typography, and Sex: The Fourteenth Mamotreto of La Lozana andaluza

    Luis Beltrán

  5. Breaking the Barriers: The Birth of López de Ubeda’s Pícara Justina

    Nina Cox Davis

  6. Defining the Picaresque: Authority and the Subject in Guzmán de Alfarache

    Carroll B. Johnson

  7. Trials of Discourse: Narrative Space in Quevedo’s Buscón

    Edward H. Friedman

  8. Picaresque Elements in Cervantes’s Works

    Manuel Durán

  9. Sonnes of the Rogue: Picaresque Relations in England and Spain

    Anne J. Cruz

  10. The Protean Picaresque

    Howard Mancing

Afterword: Revisiting the Picaresque in Postmodern Times

Francisco J. Sánchez and Nicholas Spadaccini