{"product_id":"at-the-margins-of-the-renaissance-lazarillo-de-tormes-and-the-picaresque-art-of-survival-studies-in-romance-literatures-9780271058467","title":"At the Margins of the Renaissance Lazarillo de","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaiorino treats this picaresque narrative as a prism for exploring econopoetics, a term he uses to foreground the ways in which literary and economic modes of production feed off one another. His approach introduces readers to the world of common people of Renaissance Spain even as it affords abundant insights into the significance of this classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This scholarship is clear, concise, pithy, and powerful.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Giancarlo Maiorino's new book is an important, complex, and suggestive study that foregrounds the many contexts of the picaresque. . . . The book will become a standard reference for all students of picaresque narratives.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Frederick de Armas,University of Chicago\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Maiorino successfully shifts the discussion of Renaissance texts in particular and of literature in general from heroes of the upper or even the middle classes to the ‘common people.’ He accomplishes this by returning us to an early form of the novel and the prototype of picaresque fiction, the \u003ci\u003eLazarillo de Tormes\u003c\/i\u003e, taking this early ‘novel’ as the starting point for a wide-ranging and stimulating discussion of various tropes and images that will lead toward a greater understanding of the ways in which aesthetic and socioeconomic factors figure in literary texts.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—James Mandrell,Brandeis University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I   In the Belly of Indigence\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.\tEconopoetics and the Great Chain of Handouts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart II  Starved to Death\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.\tThe Mousetrap: The Price of Staying Alive\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.\tInconspicuous Consumption: Of Toothpicks and Leftovers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart III  Out of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaceria\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.\tThe Water Carrier: From Subsistence to Prosperity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.\tThe Economic Culture of Toledan \u003ci\u003eProvecho\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart IV   The Price of Onomastics\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.\tLázaro de Tormes: What’s in a Name?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.\tWill Lazarus Ever Be a Wage Earner? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart V   Dividends of the Mind\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8.\tThe Cost of Education: A Tale of Two Cities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9.\tThe Economy of Genre\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10\tAt the Margins: Whose Renaissance? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex of Names\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400789205335,"sku":"9780271058467","price":34.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/at-the-margins-of-the-renaissance-lazarillo-de-tormes-and-the-picaresque-art-of-survival-studies-in-romance-literatures-9780271058467","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}