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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lickhardt, Maren[Herausgeber]
• Schuhen, Gregor[Herausgeber]
• Velten, Hans Rudolf[Herausgeber]

Titel

Transgression and Subversion : Gender in the Picaresque Novel

Ist Teil von

• Gender Studies

Auflage

1st ed

Link zum Volltext

• UTB Scholars Vollzugriff 2024

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references.
• Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Transgression and Subversion. Far from Gender? An Introduction 7 The Parent Trap: Mothers and Others in the Spanish Picaresque 17 Between Subject, Object, and Abject: Masculinities in the Spanish Picaresque 33 The Charms of Circe: Narrative Persuasion in Guzmán de Alfarache 47 Gender Trouble Without Subversion: Libro de entretenimiento de la Pícara Justina 65 Genealogy, Gender, and Genre in Alonso de Castillo Solórzano's La Garduña de Sevilla (1642) 85 Body and Gender in Till Eulenspiegel Inversions of Masculinity in the 16th century 111 Subversion and Stabilization of the Sexes by Transgression in Grimmelshausen's Courasche (1669) 131 Role Switching and Gender Marking in the Picaresque Novel 147 Picaresque Narrative and Gender Construction in Wilhelm Raabe's Lorenz Scheibenhart (1858) and Aus dem Lebensbuch des Schulmeisterleins Michel Haas (1860) 163 Masks to Mock the Light: The Authentic Pícara in Marivaux's La Vie de Marianne 181 Virile Maturity, Female Linearity, and the Transformation of the Picaresque Novel: Tobias Smollett's Roderick Random and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders 201 Contributors 217
• 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.
• Maren Lickhardt is an assistant professor of German and Media Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She completed her doctorate at the University of Mainz, Germany, and worked at the German universities of Siegen and Greifswald. Her main research fields are popular culture, culture and literature of the Weimar Republic, and picaresque novels.
• Gregor Schuhen, born 1973, is professor of Romance literatures at Universität Koblenz-Landau. His main fields of research are gender studies, Spanish and French picaresque novels as well as contemporary forms of littérature engagée.
• Hans Rudolf Velten (Dr. phil.), born 1961, is professor for Medieval German Literature and Language at the University of Siegen since 2014. His main research areas are medieval and early modern literature, theatre and culture. He has published several books and studies on premodern humour, popular literature and performance as well as on autobiographical writing.
• In English.