{"product_id":"caballero-noble-desbaratado","title":"Caballero Noble Desbaratado","description":"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. \u003cem\u003eCaballero noble desbaratado: Autobiografía e invención en el siglo XVI (Noble Knight Disrupted: Autobiography and Invention in the Sixteenth Century)\u003c\/em\u003e analyses several first-person narratives from Spain and the conditions of their writing and reception. It focuses on the sixteenth-century \u003cem\u003eLibro de la vida y costumbres (Book of Life and Customs)\u003c\/em\u003e by Alonso Enríquez de Guzmán (1499-1547), the knight of the title.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One chapter looks at antecedents to the central work: the late fourteenth-century by Leonor López de Córdoba, who narrates difficult passages of her life; the \u003cem\u003eBrief Summary of the Life and Deeds \u003c\/em\u003eby Diego García de Paredes, who speaks of duels and battles as an object lesson in honor and courage for his son; and \u003cem\u003eCautiverio y trabajos Captivity and Travails\u003c\/em\u003e by Diego Galán, 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 Bartolomé de Torres Naharro, Antonio de Guevara, and Pedro Mexía and the vitality of lyric poetry on both sides of the Atlantic. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Although the Biblioteca de Autores Españoles has devoted a volume to Enríquez de Guzmán, 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.","brand":"Purdue University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57226234364248,"sku":"9781557536020","price":43.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781557536020.jpg?v=1780114563","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/caballero-noble-desbaratado","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}