- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: University of Toronto Press (16 Oct 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0802044395
- ISBN-13: 978-0802044396
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,478,375 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In this ground-breaking study, Anne Cruz examines the treatment of poverty, prostitution, war, and other social concerns in the cultural and literary discourses of early modern Spain. This book investigates the polemics on poor relief through religious charity and secularized reform articulated not only in the Spanish picaresque canon - Lazarillo de Tormes, Guzman de Alfarache, El buscon - but also in female picaresque narratives and soldiers' tales. Emphasizing Bakhtin's notion that discursive practices must be assessed as they intersect and become textualized in history, the book also looks at this literature in relation to normative writings such as royal decrees, regulations, economic proposals, synods, and sermons. Through these discourses, authors and authorities alike debated their theories of poor assistance for both men and women, from the critique of unregulated prostitution in works such as La lozana andaluza to the control of impoverished youths through military conscription as in the Vida Alonso de Contreras and Estebanillo Gonzalez. The rupture of the feudal system and the economic devastation of the country precipitated a dramatic rise in the number of poor, who were increasingly perceived as delinquents by an anxious populace. The book employs Foucault's paradigms of confinement and control to study the various suggestions for the social containment of Spain's marginalized elements. Positing that the literary picaros and picaras assume the role of scapegoats for this disenfranchised social Other, Cruz further argues that the picaresque novels respond dialectically to the growing demonization of the poor in early modern Spanish culture.
About the Author
Anne J. Cruz is Professor of Spanish, The University of Illinois, Chicago.
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This review is from: Discourses of Poverty: Social Reform and the Picaresque Novel in Early Modern Spain (University of Toronto Romance Series) (Hardcover)
This book is unique and basically impossible to find abroad. I am gladly impressed with the effectiveness of the service offered by Amazon. This actually was my first purchased through this web page. Immediately I received information confirming it, and next day another mail telling the book was already delivered and the day to be received. I received it in perfect condition one day before expected.ASIN:0802044395 Discourses of Poverty: Social Reform and the Picaresque Novel in Early Modern Spain (University of Toronto Romance Series)]]
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By Ivonne Lopez - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Discourses of Poverty: Social Reform and the Picaresque Novel in Early Modern Spain (University of Toronto Romance Series) (Hardcover)
This book is a jewel of the Golden Age in Spain. Anne Cruz is an excellent writer and professor.
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