1st Edition
Capturing the Pícaro in Words Literary and Institutional Representations of Marginal Communities in Early Modern Madrid
By Konstantin Mierau
Copyright 2019
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Capturing the Pícaro in Words discusses the framing of the transient marginals of early modern Madrid in the literary pícaro . It compares the perceptions of constables, shopkeepers, and criminals, to those of mass-produced literary representations, and argues that the literary representations "displaced" the pícaro , assigning the marginals different places in the literary texts in order to... Read more
Introduction: Madrid and the Picaresque Novel 1. Displacing the Pícaro 2. Spanishing the Pícaro 3. Silencing the Pícaro
Biography
Konstantin Mierau is tenured lecturer for European Culture and Literature (Spanish), at the department of European Languages and Cultures of the University of Groningen.
