Practising Places : : Saint Teresa, Lazarillo and the Early Modern City /

Practising Places : : Saint Teresa, Lazarillo and the Early Modern City / / Mercedes Maroto Camino.

Practising Places offers an original insight into the culture of early modern Spain in so far as the various fields explored here are seldom juxtaposed. Literary texts, urban views and paintings are analysed side by side in a hybrid cultural interpretation that is as cartographic as it is architectu...

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Superior document:Portada Hispánica ; 10
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Camino, Mercedes Maroto
Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2001.
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
Series:Portada Hispánica ; 10.
Physical Description:1 online resource (203 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Planning the City
  • 2. Producing the City: Bird's-eye Views in Early Modern Spain
  • 3. Walking the City: Pilgrims, Walkers and Nomads
  • 4. The Subject of Marginality
  • 5. The Road, the Book and The Convent: Teresa of Avila's Topography
  • 6. Narration and Navigation: The Topography of the "Buen Puerto" in Lazarillo de Tormes
  • Conclusion: Tactics of the Weak
  • Strategies of the Strong
  • Works Cited
  • Index.

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