Pícaro and Cortesano

Identity and the Forms of Capital in Early Modern Spanish Picaresque Narrative and Courtesy Literature

Felipe E. Ruan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

180 Seiten

2011
Bucknell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61148-050-4 (ISBN)

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In this book on the relationship between pícaro and cortesano, Felipe E. Ruan argues that these two cultural figures are linked by a shared form of deportment centered on prudent self-accommodation. This behavior is generated and governed by a courtly ethos or habitus that emerges as the result of the growth and influence of the court in Madrid. Ruan posits that both pícaro and cortesano, and their respective books, conduct manual and picaresque narrative, tacitly engage questions of identity and individualism by highlighting the valued resources or forms of capital that come to fashion and sustain self-identity. He places the books of the pícaro and cortesano within the larger polemic of early modern identity and individualism, and offers an account of the individual as agent whose actions are grounded on objective social relations, without those actions being simply the result of mechanistic adherence to the social order.

Felipe E. Ruan is associate professor of Spanish at Brock University, Canada.

Verlagsort	Cranbury
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 241 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-61148-050-7 / 1611480507
ISBN-13	978-1-61148-050-4 / 9781611480504
Zustand	Neuware