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13 of the Best Books and Articles on: Picaresque Literature

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1.

Spanish Picaresque Fiction: A New Literary History » Read Now
by Peter N. Dunn. 340 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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The Literature of Roguery, Vol. 1 (1907) (Chap. II "English Picaresque Origins") » Read Now
by Frank Wadleigh Chandler. 290 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...cheats, remain classic in picaresque literature. Quevedos collection of...the influx of Peninsular picaresque literature became too obvious to be...relations with France...
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The Literature of Roguery, Vol. 2 (1907) (Chap. VII "The Picaresque Novel in the Eighteenth Century") » Read Now
by Frank Wadleigh Chandler. 584 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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The Rogue's Progress: Journeys of the Picaro from Oral Tradition to Contemporary Chicano Literature of New Mexico, in MELUS » Read Now
by Enrique R. Lamadrid. 20 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Lazarillo to the present, picaresque literature with its comic anti...a Definition of the Picaresque." Literature as System: Essays Toward...Parker, Alexander A...
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Women, Accounting, and Narrative: Keeping Books in Eighteenth-Century England (Chap. 4 "He Said/She Said: From the Picaresque to the Pointedly Personal") » Read Now
by Rebecca Elisabeth Connor. 214 pgs.

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In the early eighteenth-century the household accountant was traditionally female, they were also associated with literary and narrative accounting, inherent in diaries and letters. This text examines the development of the early novel.
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The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature ("Picaresque Novel" begins on p. 397) » Read Now
by Friederike Eigler, Susanne Kord. 684 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Today, a multiplicity of feminist approaches has become an integral part of the fields of German literary and cultural studies. This comprehensive reference provides a much needed synthesis of the contribution women have made to German literature and culture. In entries for more than 500 topics, the...
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Today, a multiplicity of feminist approaches has become an integral part of the fields of German literary and cultural studies. This comprehensive reference provides a much needed synthesis of the contribution women have made to German literature and culture. In entries for more than 500 topics, the volume surveys literary periods, epochs, and genres; critical approaches and theories; important authors and works; female stereotypes; laws and historical developments; literary concepts and themes; and organizations and archives relevant to women and women's studies. Each entry offers a concise identification of the term, a discussion of its significance, and a bibliography of works for further reading.
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Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs, L-Z ("Picaresque" begins on p. 974) » Read Now
by Jean-Charles Seigneuret. 820 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

"This index is a veritable who's who of the greats of Western literature. . . . The Board recommends it for every collection whose users conduct analytical studies of literature." Reference Books Bulletin
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The Endless Text: Don Quixote and the Hermeneutics of Romance ("The Stolen Language of the Picaresque versus the Forgotten Language of Women" begins on p. 217) » Read Now
by Edward Dudley. 316 pgs.

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The Endless Text is the first study to trace the history of chivalric fiction in Western Europe, from the earliest Celtic tales to the conflict between romance and realism in Don Quixote. A set of specific rhetorical devices are traced through the development of medieval romance in the works of...
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The Endless Text is the first study to trace the history of chivalric fiction in Western Europe, from the earliest Celtic tales to the conflict between romance and realism in Don Quixote. A set of specific rhetorical devices are traced through the development of medieval romance in the works of Chretien de Troyes, and a surprising number of these devices survive in Don Quixote: the troubled relationship between narrator and hero, the consistent image of the hero in contrast to the fluctuating portrayals of women, and how problems of retelling the story became part of the story itself.
An integral part of this rhetorical migration was the unstable referential value of the lexicon: for example, fish platters became holy chalices, and gods became heroes while goddess and Otherworld women became evil enchantresses. It was this linguistic revolution that created the "hermeneutics of romance" and forced readers to interpret the unstable signs embedded in the text. Fear of how this played out in the reader's consciousness was the basis for the condemnation of romance by church and state. Ultimately, this critical approach provides a new formula for rereading Don Quixote, one that reinterprets the questions of what makes or unmakes a hero, what is free will in relation to destiny, and how the language of women differs from that of men.
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Celestina's Brood: Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American Literatures (Chap. 2 "The Life and Adventures of Cipion: Cervantes and the Picaresque") » Read Now
by Roberto Gonzelez Echevarria. 284 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Cervantes and the Picaresque The question...Spanish, Comparative Literature, and what begun...available through literature. The picaresque, particularly...thrust away from...
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Creating the Rogue Hero: Literary Devices in the Picaresque Novels of Martin Amis, Richard Russo, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Steve Tesich, in International Fiction Review » Read Now
by Jamie McCulloch. 14 pgs.

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The Slave's Narrative ("The Slave Narrators and the Picaresque Mode: Archetypes for Modern Black Personae" begins on p. 283) » Read Now
by Charles T. Davis, Henry Louis Gates Jr. 342 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Neither Saints nor Sinners: Writing the Lives of Women in Spanish America ("New Scripts: Nun, Picara, and Comedianta" begins on p. 123) » Read Now
by Kathleen Ann Myers. 273 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

This book brings together the portraits and autobiographical texts of six 17th-century Latin American women, drawing on primary sources that include Inquisition and canonization records, confessional and mystic journals, and legal defenses and petitions.
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Essays in German and Comparative Literature ("Picaresque Elements in Thomas Mann's Work" begins on p. 161) » Read Now
by Oskar Seidlin. 256 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...The University of North Carolina Studies in Comparative Literature and The University of North Carolina Press JOHNSON REPRINT...Eichendorffs Symbolic Landscape 1957 141 11...