Autobiography in Early Modern Spain
Ed. Nicholas Spadaccini and Jenaro Talens
Examines the "rise" of modern literature as articulated around the concept of autobiography. The essays deal with literary and historical production from the perspective of the reader as co-author/co-producer of meaning.
Introduction
The Construction of the Self. Notes on Autobiography in Early Modern Spain
Nicholas Spadaccini and Jenaro Talens
- Narration and Argumentation in Autobiographical Discourse
Antonio Gómez-Moriana - A Clown at Court: Francesillo de Zúñiga’s Crónica burlesca
George Mariscal - A Methodological Prolegomenon to a Post-Modernist Reading of Santa Teresa’s Autobiography
Patrick Dust - Golden Age Autobiography: The Soldiers
Margarita Levisi - The Picaresque as Autobiography: Story and History
Edward Friedman - The Function of Picaresque Autobiographies: Toward a History of Social Offenders
Anthony N. Zahareas - Fortune’s Monster and Monarchy in Las relaciones de Antonio Pérez
Helen H. Reed - The Woman at the Border: Some Thoughts on Cervantes and Autobiography
Ruth El Saffar - Poetry as Autobiography: Theory and Poetic Practice in Cervantes
Jenaro Talens
Appendix
Curriculum vitae
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra