Caballero Noble Desbaratado: Autobiografía E Invención En El Siglo XVI

Author/Contributor(s):	Gastañaga Ponce de León, José Luis
Publisher:	Purdue University Press
Date:	08/15/2011
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

First-person narrative does not always fall under the genre of autobiography. In the centuries before the genre was defined, authors often patterned their personal narratives after prestigious discourses, such as hagiography, historiography, and the literary miscellany. Caballero noble desbaratado: AutobiografÃ-a e invenciÃ3n en el siglo XVI [Noble Knight Disrupted: Autobiography and Invention in the Sixteenth Century] analyzes several first-person narratives from Spain and the conditions of their writing and reception. It focuses on the sixteenth-century Libro de la vida y costumbres [Book of life and customs] by Alonso EnrÃ-quez de Guzmàn (1499"1547), the knight of the title. The study also examines the influence of other writers and the vitality of lyric poetry on both sides of the Atlantic. Although the Biblioteca de Autores Españoles has devoted a volume to EnrÃ-quez de Guzmàn, there has never been a book-length study dedicated to this author. This book fills that gap and constitutes a valuable contribution to the study of autobiography in Spanish.