UID:
edocfu_9959229413102883
Format:
1 online resource (216 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
3-8394-4400-4
Series Statement:
Gender Studies
Content:
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? In terms of a gendered subject, the picaresque figure has hardly been analyzed so far. Although scholars have recognized it as a transgressive and subversive model, the 'queer' effect of the figure is yet to be examined. With regard to the categories of class, generation, topography, and gender, the contributions assembled in this volume explore Spanish, French, English, and German novels narratologically from the perspective of culture and gender theories.
Note:
Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Transgression and Subversion. Far from Gender? An Introduction 7 The Parent Trap: Mothers and Others in the Spanish Picaresque 17 Between Subject, Object, and Abject: Masculinities in the Spanish Picaresque 33 The Charms of Circe: Narrative Persuasion in Guzmán de Alfarache 47 Gender Trouble Without Subversion: Libro de entretenimiento de la Pícara Justina 65 Genealogy, Gender, and Genre in Alonso de Castillo Solórzano's La Garduña de Sevilla (1642) 85 Body and Gender in Till Eulenspiegel Inversions of Masculinity in the 16th century 111 Subversion and Stabilization of the Sexes by Transgression in Grimmelshausen's Courasche (1669) 131 Role Switching and Gender Marking in the Picaresque Novel 147 Picaresque Narrative and Gender Construction in Wilhelm Raabe's Lorenz Scheibenhart (1858) and Aus dem Lebensbuch des Schulmeisterleins Michel Haas (1860) 163 Masks to Mock the Light: The Authentic Pícara in Marivaux's La Vie de Marianne 181 Virile Maturity, Female Linearity, and the Transformation of the Picaresque Novel: Tobias Smollett's Roderick Random and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders 201 Contributors 217
,
In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-8376-4400-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.14361/9783839444009
