La Fuerza De La Tradicion: Representaciones Del Estudiante En La Novela Picaresca

Resumen del Libro

The genre of the picaresque (romances of roguery), which were popular in sixteenth-century Spain, contain the literary type of the picaro or rogue, which can appear at times as a student. The current work presents the historical context of the Spanish university and of the students life as well as the representation of the student in several picaresque novels, namely, Mateo Alemans El Guzman de Alfarache, Vicente Espinels Marcos de Obregon, Jeronimo de Alcala y Yanezs El donoso hablador, and Francisco de Quevedos El Buscon, in order to contrast the social reality of the student and its literary representation.