Transgression and Subversion : : Gender in the Picaresque Novel /

Transgression and Subversion : : Gender in the Picaresque Novel / / ed. by Gregor Schuhen, Maren Lickhardt, Hans Rudolf Velten.

Is the pícaro, the roguish hero of early modern Spanish adventure fiction, a 'real man'? What position does he hold in the gender hierarchy of his fictional social context? Why is the pícara so 'non-female'? What effect has her gender constitution on her fictional social context?...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2018 Part 2
MitwirkendeR:
Bauer, Matthias,
Cruz, Anne J.,
Ehrlicher, Hanno,
Elze, Jens,
Estelmann, Frank,
Jakob, Hans-Joachim,
Kehren, Timo,
Lickhardt, Maren,
Schamel, Alexandra,
Schuhen, Gregor,
Velten, Hans Rudolf,
HerausgeberIn:
Lickhardt, Maren,
Schuhen, Gregor,
Velten, Hans Rudolf,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Gender Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (218 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Transgression and Subversion. Far from Gender? An Introduction
  • The Parent Trap: Mothers and Others in the Spanish Picaresque
  • Between Subject, Object, and Abject: Masculinities in the Spanish Picaresque
  • The Charms of Circe: Narrative Persuasion in Guzmán de Alfarache
  • Gender Trouble Without Subversion: Libro de entretenimiento de la Pícara Justina
  • Genealogy, Gender, and Genre in Alonso de Castillo Solórzano’s La Garduña de Sevilla (1642)
  • Body and Gender in Till Eulenspiegel Inversions of Masculinity in the 16th century
  • Subversion and Stabilization of the Sexes by Transgression in Grimmelshausen’s Courasche (1669)
  • Role Switching and Gender Marking in the Picaresque Novel
  • Picaresque Narrative and Gender Construction in Wilhelm Raabe’s Lorenz Scheibenhart (1858) and Aus dem Lebensbuch des Schulmeisterleins Michel Haas (1860)
  • Masks to Mock the Light: The Authentic Pícara in Marivaux’s La Vie de Marianne
  • Virile Maturity, Female Linearity, and the Transformation of the Picaresque Novel: Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Random and Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders
  • Contributors

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