{"id":13575,"date":"2011-11-17T15:21:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T20:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=13575"},"modified":"2011-11-17T15:21:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T20:21:20","slug":"spanish-professor-publishes-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/11\/spanish-professor-publishes-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish professor publishes new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13576\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13576\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13576 \" title=\"Picaro and Cortesano: Identity and the Forms of Capital in Early Modern Spanish Picaresque Narrative and Courtesy Litera\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/51nyqsxbgl_ss500_-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Picaro and Cortesano: Identity and the Forms of Capital in Early Modern Spanish Picaresque Narrative and Courtesy Litera\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picaro and Cortesano: Identity and the Forms of Capital in Early Modern Spanish Picaresque Narrative and Courtesy Litera<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/humanities\/departments-and-centres\/modern-languages\/faculty-and-staff-ml\" target=\"_blank\">Felipe Ruan<\/a>, associate professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/humanities\/departments-and-centres\/modern-languages\" target=\"_blank\">Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures<\/a>, has published the book  <em>P\u00edcaro and Cortesano: Identity and the Forms of Capital in Early Modern Spanish Picaresque Narrative and Courtesy Literature<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a description from the publisher, Bucknell University Press:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In this book on the relationship between p\u00edcaro and cortesano, Felipe E. Ruan argues that these two cultural figures are linked by a shared form of deportment centred on prudent self-accommodation. This behavior is generated and governed by a courtly ethos or habitus that emerges as the result of the growth and influence of the court in Madrid. Ruan posits that both p\u00edcaro and cortesano, and their respective books, conduct manual and picaresque narrative, tacitly engage questions of identity and individualism by highlighting the valued resources or forms of capital that come to fashion and sustain self-identity. He places the books of the p\u00edcaro and cortesano within the larger polemic of early modern identity and individualism, and offers an account of the individual as agent whose actions are grounded on objective social relations, without those actions being simply the result of mechanistic adherence to the social order.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Picaro-Cortesano-Identity-Picaresque-Narrative\/dp\/1611480507\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Picaro and Cortesano: Identity and the Forms of Capital in Early Modern Spanish Picaresque Narrative and Courtesy Litera<\/em> at amazon.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felipe Ruan has published a book on P\u00edcaro and Cortesano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[30,139],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13578,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13575\/revisions\/13578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}