The Rise of Pseudo-Historical Fiction : Fray Antonio De Guevara's Novelizations
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0820471321
ISBN-13
9780820471327
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 5th, 2004
Print length
300 Pages
Weight
570 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 23.60 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Fray Antonio de Guevara (1482-1545), the most prolific writer of pseudo-historical prose in sixteenth-century Spain, was named official chronicler by Emperor Charles V in 1526. Despite his title, Guevara never wrote a conventional history. A master of fictional semblance, Guevara self-fashioned his own literary personae or masks – among them those of friar, bishop, chronicler, courtier, imperial counselor, and court buffoon. In his pseudo-historical prose, Guevara resoundingly uses the voices of both the novelist and the court buffoon, entertaining the reader with humor, wit, satire, and irony. Artistically manipulating both classical and contemporary history, Guevara innovatively creates a vast and labyrinthine web in which history and fiction form an inseparable hybrid: a pseudo-historical narrative that heralds the essay and the modern novel.
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