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Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World

Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/modern-language-quarterly/article-pdf/83/2/235/1611107/235johnson.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 12 July 2022 By Barbara Fuchs. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 174 pp. How is a reader to trust the account of someone who subsists on the ability to deceive? How to accredit a narrator whose welfare hinges on the credibility of the story itself? By what means might an impoverished rogue character lay claim to veracity, much less deliver on the promise of moral edification, in a milieu where such values were invariablymediatedbywealth, status,and notions of confessional and ethnic purity? These questions have figured cen- trally, albeit implicitly, in literary criticism of the picaresque, yet never have they been posed with such intergeneric and geographic breadth, or given rise to hypotheses as tantalizing and persuasive, as in Barbara Fuchs’s latest book. By mining the early modern Spanish literary and historical canons for rich, unseen veins of narrative instability and incertitude, Knowing Fictions assembles a more capacious frame for the picaresque, one less dependent on the thematic markers that traditionally have circumscribed the genre than on the vexed, sometimes ludic, and always interested relationship between narrator and narration. In addition to Francisco Delicado’s La lozana andaluza, the anonymous Viaje de http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Modern Language Quarterly Duke University Press

Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World

Johnson, Paul Michael
Modern Language Quarterly , Volume 83 (2) – Jun 1, 2022
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/modern-language-quarterly/article-pdf/83/2/235/1611107/235johnson.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 12 July 2022 By Barbara Fuchs. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 174 pp. How is a reader to trust the account of someone who subsists on the ability to deceive? How to accredit a narrator whose welfare hinges on the credibility of the story itself? By what means might an impoverished rogue character lay claim to veracity, much less deliver on the promise of moral edification, in a milieu where such values were invariablymediatedbywealth, status,and notions of confessional and ethnic purity? These questions have figured cen- trally, albeit implicitly, in literary criticism of the picaresque, yet never have they been posed with such intergeneric and geographic breadth, or given rise to hypotheses as tantalizing and persuasive, as in Barbara Fuchs’s latest book. By mining the early modern Spanish literary and historical canons for rich, unseen veins of narrative instability and incertitude, Knowing Fictions assembles a more capacious frame for the picaresque, one less dependent on the thematic markers that traditionally have circumscribed the genre than on the vexed, sometimes ludic, and always interested relationship between narrator and narration. In addition to Francisco Delicado’s La lozana andaluza, the anonymous Viaje de

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Published: Jun 1, 2022

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