At the margins of the Renaissance : Lazarillo de Tormes and the picaresque art of survival

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At the margins of the Renaissance : Lazarillo de Tormes and the picaresque art of survival

Giancarlo Maiorino

Pennsylvania State University Press, c2003

  • : cloth : alk. paper

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-180) and index

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Published anonymously in 1554, Lazarillo de Tormes upset all the strict hierarchies that governed art and society during the Renaissance. It traces the adventures not of a nobleman or ancient hero, but rather of an ordinary man who struggles for survival in a cruel, corrupt society after growing up under the care of a blind beggar. Giancarlo Maiorino treats this picaresque narrative as a prism for exploring econopoetics, a term he uses to foreground the ways in which literary and economic modes of production feed off one another. His approach introduces readers to the turbulent world of common people of Renaissance Spain even as it affords abundant insights into the historical significance of this literary classic. Although literary historians generally connect the rise of the novel to the needs of the middle classes of England, Maiorino demonstrates that its deepest roots are in the culture of indigence that developed at the peripheries of Renaissance society and challenged-even parodied-its authoritarian ambitions. Seen in this light, Lazarillo de Tormes emerges as a key text in understanding the novel's purchase on visions of escape from authority into alternative modes of existence. Maiorino grounds his far-reaching arguments in recent theories of textuality and the practices of everyday life. His book will be important reading for all those concerned with the Renaissance, Spanish history and culture, and, more generally, theories of the novel.

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Contents Acknowledgments Illustrations Part I In the Belly of Indigence 1. Econopoetics and the Great Chain of Handouts Part II Starved to Death 2. The Mousetrap: The Price of Staying Alive 3. Inconspicuous Consumption: Of Toothpicks and Leftovers Part III Out of Laceria 4. The Water Carrier: From Subsistence to Prosperity 5. The Economic Culture of Toledan Provecho Part IV The Price of Onomastics 6. Lazaro de Tormes: What's in a Name? 7. Will Lazarus Ever Be a Wage Earner? Part V Dividends of the Mind 8. The Cost of Education: A Tale of Two Cities 9. The Economy of Genre 10 At the Margins: Whose Renaissance? Works Cited Index of Names Index

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