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...
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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.
Lickhardt, Maren / Schuhen, Gregor / Velten, Hans Rudolf --: Frontmatter -- ; Contents -- ; Transgression and Subversion. Far from Gender? An Introduction
Cruz, Anne J. --: The Parent Trap: Mothers and Others in the Spanish Picaresque
Schuhen, Gregor --: Between Subject, Object, and Abject: Masculinities in the Spanish Picaresque
Kehren, Timo --: The Charms of Circe: Narrative Persuasion in Guzmán de Alfarache
Ehrlicher, Hanno --: Gender Trouble Without Subversion: Libro de entretenimiento de la Pícara Justina
Estelmann, Frank --: Genealogy, Gender, and Genre in Alonso de Castillo Solórzano’s La Garduña de Sevilla (1642)
Velten, Hans Rudolf --: Body and Gender in Till Eulenspiegel Inversions of Masculinity in the 16th century
Lickhardt, Maren --: Subversion and Stabilization of the Sexes by Transgression in Grimmelshausen’s Courasche (1669)
Bauer, Matthias --: Role Switching and Gender Marking in the Picaresque Novel
Jakob, Hans-Joachim --: Picaresque Narrative and Gender Construction in Wilhelm Raabe’s Lorenz Scheibenhart (1858) and Aus dem Lebensbuch des Schulmeisterleins Michel Haas (1860)
Schamel, Alexandra --: Masks to Mock the Light: The Authentic Pícara in Marivaux’s La Vie de Marianne
Elze, Jens --: Virile Maturity, Female Linearity, and the Transformation of the Picaresque Novel: Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Random and Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders
