Cover -- Knowing Fictions -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Imperial Picaresques: La Lozana andaluza and Spanish Rome -- Chapter 2. Picaresque Captivity: The Viaje de Turquía and Its Cervantine Iterations -- Chapter 3. "O te digo verdades o mentiras": Crediting the Pícaro in Guzmán de Alfarache -- Chapter 4. Cervantes's Skeptical Picaresques and the Pact of Fictionality -- Postscript. The Fact of Fiction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
In Knowing Fictions, Barbara Fuchs engages the picaresque as a set of literary strategies that interrogate the mechanisms of truth-telling itself and shows how picaresque texts effectively encouraged readers to adopt a critical stance toward the truth claims implicit in the forms of authoritative discourse proliferating in Imperial Spain
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed February 4, 2021)
