Lazarillo de Tormes (Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics)
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- Synopsis
- Lazarillo de Tormes (1554) is here offered facing the brilliant Tudor English translation of David Rowland of Anglesey (1586). Ostensibly a racy autobiography of a young rogue and his succession of masters, in reality it is a comical and caustic expose of sixteenth century Spanish society, and especially the Church. Rowland's translation exploited the propaganda potential of the text at a time when England and Spain drifted into open war. Lazarillo de Tormes is a key Renaissance humanist text and a formative influence upon European rogue literature and the evolution of realist prose fiction. Keith Whitlock has written a full introduction from a European perspective and provided a comprehensive annotation of the Tudor English. 176p
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- ISBN-13:
- 9781800857728
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780856687280
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 01/03/24
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- Adult content:
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- Language:
- English
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- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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- This is a copyrighted book.