Identity and the Forms of Capital in Early Modern Spanish Picaresque Narrative and Courtesy Literature
by
Felipe E. Ruan
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
In this book on the relationship between pĂcaro and cortesano, Felipe E. Ruan argues that these two cultural figures are linked by a shared form of deportment centered on prudent self-accommodation. This behavior is generated and governed by a courtly ethos or habitus that emerges as the result of...