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Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World

By Barbara Fuchs

Book information

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780812299502
DOI
10.9783/9780812299502
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9588034 bytes)
Pages
208\184
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-26 19:31:52

Description

In Knowing Fictions, Barbara Fuchs engages the picaresque as a set of literary strategies that interrogate the mechanisms of truth-telling itself and shows how picaresque texts effectively encouraged readers to adopt a critical stance toward the truth claims implicit in the forms of authoritative discourse proliferating in Imperial Spain.In Knowing Fictions, Barbara Fuchs engages the picaresque as a set of literary strategies that interrogate the mechanisms of truth-telling itself and shows how picaresque texts effectively encouraged readers to adopt a critical stance toward the truth claims implicit in the forms of authoritative discourse proliferating in Imperial Spain.

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