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: Autobiograf�a e invenci�n en el siglo XVI (Noble Knight Disrupted: Autobiography and Invention in the Sixteenth Century) analyses several first-person narratives from Spain and the conditions of their writing and reception. ...
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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: Autobiograf�a e invenci�n en el siglo XVI (Noble Knight Disrupted: Autobiography and Invention in the Sixteenth Century) analyses 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 Enr�quez de Guzm�n (1499-1547), the knight of the title. One chapter looks at antecedents to the central work: the late fourteenth-century by Leonor L�pez de C�rdoba, who narrates difficult passages of her life; the Brief Summary of the Life and Deeds by Diego Garc�a de Paredes, who speaks of duels and battles as an object lesson in honor and courage for his son; and Cautiverio y trabajos Captivity and Travails by Diego Gal�n, a tale of captivity and flight in Muslim lands that constitutes an early example of fictionalised autobiography. The study also examines the influence of writers like Bartolom� de Torres Naharro, Antonio de Guevara, and Pedro Mex�a and the vitality of lyric poetry on both sides of the Atlantic. Although the Biblioteca de Autores Espa�oles has devoted a volume to Enr�quez de Guzm�n, 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.
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