Caballero noble desbaratado: Autobiografía e invención en el siglo XVI

by José Luis Gastañaga Ponce de León

Overview

First-person narrative does not always fall under the genre of autobiography. In the centuries before the genre was defined, authors often patterned their personal narratives after prestigious discourses, such as hagiography, historiography, and the literary miscellany. Caballero noble desbaratado: Autobiografía e invención en el siglo XVI [Noble Knight Disrupted: Autobiography and Invention in the Sixteenth Century] analyzes several first-person narratives from Spain and the conditions of their writing and reception. It focuses on the sixteenth-century Libro de la vida y costumbres [Book of life and customs] by Alonso Enríquez de Guzmán (1499“1547), the knight of the title. The study also examines the influence of other writers and the vitality of lyric poetry on both sides of the Atlantic. Although the Biblioteca de Autores Españoles has devoted a volume to Enríquez de Guzmán, there has never been a book-length study dedicated to this author. This book fills that gap and constitutes a valuable contribution to the study of autobiography in Spanish.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557536020
Publisher:	Purdue University Press
Publication date:	08/15/2011
Series:	Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures , #51
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

José Luis Gastañaga Ponce de León, Villanova University, ha publicado estudios sobre la temprana literatura moderna española y la historiagrafía colonial de la America Latina. Al momento está trabajando sobre Le Celestina y las formas tempranas de la novelas.

José Luis Gastañaga Ponce de León, Villanova University, has published essays on Early Modern Spanish literature and Latin American Colonial historiography. Currently he is working on La Celestina and early forms of the novel.

Table of Contents

Agradecimiento
Lista de abreviaturas de las ediciones utilizadas
Introducción
Capítulo uno: La tradición autobiográfica española: Desde doña Leonor López de Córdoba hasta Diego Galán
Capítulo dos: La cultura literaria de Alonso Enríquez de Guzmán
Capítulo tres: El Libro de la vida y costumbres y las misceláneas
Conclusiones
Notas
Fuentes citadas
Índice alfabético