Criminality and Subjectivity in "Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez."

This essay explores the ways that Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora's "Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez" adapts the picaresque's classic and Golden Age generic conventions for a Baroque and New World idiom. By examining the nature of criminality in the work, I argue that the traditional Spanish "picaro's" a...

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Publicado en:Hispanic Review Vol. 78; no. 1; pp. 25 - 49
Autor principal: Boyer, Patricio
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Publicado: University of Pennsylvania Press Winter2010
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