Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World

by Barbara Fuchs

European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience grew more distant, strategies designed to convey the act of witnessing came to be a key source of textual authority. From the relaci?n to the captivity narrative, the Hispanic imperial project relied heavily on the first-person authority of genres whose authenticity undergirded the ideological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812252616
• ISBN13: 9780812252613
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"