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Author:

Maiorino, Giancarlo, 1943-

Title:

At the margins of the Renaissance : Lazarillo de Tormes and the picaresque art of survival / Giancarlo Maiorino.

Publisher:

Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

184 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Lazarillo de Tormes.
Picaresque literature, Spanish--History and criticism.
Survival in literature.
Poverty in literature.
Literature and society--Spain.
Spain--Social conditions--To 1800.

Notes:

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

Contents:

Econopoetics and the great chain of handouts -- The mousetrap : the price of staying alive -- Inconspicuous consumption : of toothpicks and leftovers -- The water carrier : from subsistence to prosperity -- The economic culture of toledan provecho -- Lázaro de Tormes : what's in a name? -- Will Lazarus ever be a wage earner? -- The cost of education : a tale of two cities -- The economy of genre.

Series:

Penn State studies in romance literatures

ISBN:

9780271022796 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271022795 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51022859

LCCN:

2002153403

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)