Practising Places

Saint Teresa, <i>Lazarillo</i> and the Early Modern City
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-420-1344-5
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 354 g

Reihe: Portada Hispánica

Practising Places offers an original insight into the culture of early modern Spain in so far as the various fields explored here are seldom juxtaposed. Literary texts, urban views and paintings are analysed side by side in a hybrid cultural interpretation that is as cartographic as it is architectural, historical or literary.
This book presents a “thick” description which focuses on the first picaresque novel, Lazarillo de Tormes, the autobiographical writing of Teresa of Avila, and the urban views of Spanish towns drafted or painted by Joris Hoefnagel, Anton Van den Wyngaerde and El Greco. These works embody and challenge the sense of grandeur and subsequent notion of crisis, which inhere in the period. In this way, they simultaneously highlight and question the centralism and social control of the absolutist Habsburg rules, illustrating the claim that space is as much a social product as a social producer.
Mercedes Maroto Camino is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, where she specialises in the early modern period. She has published widely in the areas of women’s writing, history of cartography, colonialism and the comedia. Her previous book was published by The Edwin Mellen Press and her articles have appeared in journals such as Hispanic Review, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Cartographica, Parergon, Spenser Studies, Forum for Modern Language Studies and Bulletin of the Comediantes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maroto Camino, Mercedes

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Spanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Planning the City
2. Producing the City: Bird’s-eye Views in Early Modern Spain
3. Walking the City: Pilgrims, Walkers and Nomads
4. The Subject of Marginality
5. The Road, the Book and The Convent: Teresa of Avila’s Topography
6. Narration and Navigation: The Topography of the “Buen Puerto” in Lazarillo de Tormes
Conclusion: Tactics of the Weak,
Strategies of the Strong
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mercedes Maroto Camino is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, where she specialises in the early modern period. She has published widely in the areas of women’s writing, history of cartography, colonialism and the comedia. Her previous book was published by The Edwin Mellen Press and her articles have appeared in journals such as Hispanic Review, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Cartographica, Parergon, Spenser Studies, Forum for Modern Language Studies and Bulletin of the Comediantes.