Spanish Picaresque Fiction: A New Literary History

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Cornell University Press, 1993 - Literary Criticism - 337 pages
Exiled to the margins of society and surviving by his wits in the course of his wanderings, the picaro marks a sharp contrast to the high-born characters on whom previous Spanish literature had focused. In this illuminating book, Peter N. Dunn offers a fresh view of the gamut of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish picaresque fiction.

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Contents

Genre as Problem 320
29
Beyond the Texts
88
PART TWO FICTIVE WORLDS
113
Inner Worlds
162
Cervantes
203
Rogue Females
232
Dissemination and Dissolution
252
vienen a la Corte de Madrid
274
Picaresque as Cultural Text
291
Selected Bibliography
315
Index
331
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