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Spanish Picaresque Fiction: A New Literary History

Book by Peter N. Dunn; Cornell University Press, 1993

Subjects:

Picaresque Literature, Spanish--History And Criticism, Spanish Fiction--Classical Period, 1500-1700--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...visible when the picaresque narrative, like the picaro himself, left home...concepts of "the picaro" and "the picaresque." To an unprecedented...example of a typical picaresque plot structure, or of a typical picaro other than the fact...
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The Literature of Roguery - Vol. 2

Book by Frank Wadleigh Chandler; Houghton, Mifflin, 1907

Subjects:

Picaresque Literature, Rogues And Vagabonds

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...CHAPTER VII. THE PICARESQUE NOVEL IN THE EIGHTEENTH...2.Picaros in the Orient...contrasts with the picaresque anti-hero by being...compromise between the picaro and the hero, intended...wanderings of any picaro; and even the wild...jests of earlier picaresque literature. Uncle...
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The Literature of Roguery - Vol. 1

Book by Frank Wadleigh Chandler; Houghton Mifflin, 1907

Subjects:

Picaresque Literature, Rogues And Vagabonds

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...versified "Vida del Picaro" 1601 and...with makers of the picaresque when in "Don...now it gave the picaresque scheme a fantastic...and forgot the picaro; and again it transformed...underworld, brought the picaresque series to a close...who began as a picaro, died a rustic philosopher...
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Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs: L-Z - Vol. 2

Book by Jean-Charles Seigneuret; Greenwood Press, 1988

Subjects:

Literature, Comparative--Themes, Motives--Dictionaries

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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Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs - Vol. 1

Book by Jean-Charles Seigneuret; Greenwood Press, 1988

Subjects:

Literature, Comparative--Themes, Motives--Dictionaries

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 Rogue's Progress: Journeys of the Picaro from Oral Tradition to Contemporary Chicano Literature of New Mexico

Journal article by Enrique R. Lamadrid; MELUS, Vol. 20, 1995

Subjects:

Mexican American literature (Spanish)--Analysis, New Mexico--Literature, Picaresque literature--History

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...prototypes for picaresque characters were...though the literary picaros would not appear...the abundance of picaresque models. The picaro cannot exist completely...critics of the picaresque tradition share...orphanhood of the picaro. Somehow, the...
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Rowland A. Sherrill, Road-Book America: Contemporary Culture and the New Picaresque

Journal article by Timothy Bauer; American Studies International, Vol. 42, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Road-Book America: Contemporary Culture and the New Picaresque (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...that his analysis of the new picaresque has significant literary weight...that the sixteenth century picaro Lazarillo de Tormes has much...further, giving the new American picaros and picaras individuality...American chapter to the legacy of picaresque writing. Much of this rings...
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(A)Wry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes, and the Early Picaresque.

Journal article by Barbara E. Kurtz; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 56, 2003

Subjects:

(A)Wry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes, and the Early Picaresque (Book), Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Anamorphosis, Cervantes, and the Early Picaresque. . by Barbara E. Kurtz David...Anamorphosis, Cervantes, and the Early Picaresque. (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures...major literary texts of the period: the picaresque novels Lazarillo de Tormes, Guzmdn de...
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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

Journal article by Jamie Mcculloch; International Fiction Review, Vol. 34, 2007

Subjects:

Characters and characteristics in literature--Appreciation, Literary characters--Appreciation, Literary techniques--Appreciation, Novelists--Criticism and interpretation, Novels--Authorship, Picaresque literature--Authorship

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Rogue Hero: Literary Devices in the Picaresque Novels of Martin Amis, Richard Russo...toward more than any others are the picaresques such as Catcher in the Rye--particularly...of the rogue. Its not just because picaresque heroes are more fun than other characters...
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Miraba Las Cosas Que Desía: Convent Writing, Picaresque Tales, and the Relación Autobiográfica by Ursula Suárez (1666-1749)

Journal article by Kathleen A. Myers; Romance Quarterly, Vol. 40, 1993

Subjects:

Romance Philology

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and marrying the picaro Guzman de Alfarache...materializes. Thus, the picaresque narrative uses...sinner-saint who draws on picaresque narratives as she...of saints and picaros , represent two...borrowings from the picaresque narrative, have...trousers to become a picaro-soldado in the...

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Pakistan Picaresque: A Surreal Encounter in an Islamabad Office Reveals in an Instant Why Billions of Dollars Spent on Aid to Pakistan Have Made So Little Difference in the Lives of the Country's Poor

Magazine article by Samia Altaf; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 32, Winter 2008

Subjects:

Expenditures, Public--Analysis, Federal aid to health facilities--Evaluation, Foreign assistance, Government aid to health facilities--Evaluation, Interviews--Personal narratives, Pakistan--Health policy, Public expenditures--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Pakistan Picaresque: A Surreal Encounter in an Islamabad Office Reveals in an Instant Why Billions of Dollars Spent on Aid to Pakistan Have Made So...
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Cormac McCarthy's Bizarre Genius: A Reclusive Master of Language and the Picaresque, on a Roll

Magazine article by John W. Aldridge; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 274, August 1994

Subjects:

All the Pretty Horses (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Blood Meridian (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, McCarthy, Cormac--Criticism and interpretation, Outer Dark (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Suttree (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, The Crossing (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, The Orchard Keeper (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Criticism and interpretation

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...Reclusive Master of Language and the Picaresque, on a Roll. by John W. Aldridge...it is cast in the form of a sweeping picaresque tale of adventure in the modern Southwest...put it, and "wrote catch-as-catch-can, picaresque," McCarthy has here given himself up...
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When Women Pirates Sailed the Seas

Magazine article by Marcus Rediker; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 17, Autumn 1993

Subjects:

Boony, Anne--Biography, Feminism--18th century, Pirates--Biography, Read, Mary--Biography

Collections: Entire Library

...from motion." The novel, he continues, "doesnt grow only out of the respectable bourgeois household. It also encompasses the picaro, the vagabond, the itinerant, the pirate--outcasts from the stable world of good householders--those who cannot or will not...
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Middlesex

Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, September 2002

Subjects:

American fiction

Collections: Entire Library

...is a hybrid--its at once a Greek-American family saga and a picaresque coming-of-age narrative. Whereas the authors first book, The...of coming events. Likewise, and also in the manner of the picaresque, the author takes advantage of his loose structure and has...
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An Amiable Cozy World

Magazine article by Margery Y. Irvine; World and I, Vol. 18, November 2003

Subjects:

Mrs. Roberto: or, the Widowy Worries of the Moosepath League (Book)

Collections: Entire Library

...Cozy World. by MARGERY Y. IRVINE Set in colorfully detailed turn-of-the-century Maine, Van Reids fourth in the picaresque Moosepath League series is filled with comedy, suspense, and romance. Margery Y. Irvine teaches Maine literature and creative...

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For Decemberists, Music Is Their Art

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), March 11, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Decemberists. When the bands latest CD, "Picaresque," comes out on March 22, thats Funk...did an elaborate photo shoot for the `Picaresque" CD booklet. Funk plays the Tamarack...together. Lyrics called `hyperliterate "Picaresque" is the bands third full-length album...
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`Smoke Signals' Fades without Much Fire

Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, July 3, 1998

Subjects:

Alexie, Sherman

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...without much fire by Gary Arnold "A good day to be indigenous," quips one of the characters in "Smoke Signals," a picaresque comedy that accompanies two young men from the Coeur dAlene Indian Reservation in Idaho on a round trip to Arizona. Curiously...
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Crude 'Kingpin' Gets a Few Strikes

Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, July 26, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Crude Kingpin gets a few strikes by Gary Arnold The picaresque sports farce "Kingpin" rolls along with considerable tasteless verve and confidence while trying to juggle divergent genres . Inspiration...
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Winged Girl Can't Hit the Heights

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 27, 2006

Subjects:

Theater--Theater reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...THEATRE Nights at the Circus Lyric, Hammersmith ... IF ANY company were to be capable of wrestling Angela Carters burlesque, picaresque, feminist chimera of a novel to the stage, it was Kneehigh. Lauded for Tristan and Yseult at the National last year and increasingly...
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Tale 'Guaranteed' to Be Very Boring

Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, February 17, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...enjoyed a modest art-house vogue in the late 1980s with "Men," the account of a ludicrous menage a trois, fails to sustain a picaresque odd couple pretext in "Guaranteed." In the film, German brothers travel to Japan to get lost for a time in Tokyo and then...

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Novel

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Sages Gil Blas (1715 35), a picaresque Span. picaro =rogue, knave tale of a young...Flanders (1722), which relates the picaresque adventures of a good-natured...Finn (1883), a revival of the picaresque novel, is romantic in its Mississippi...
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Head, Richard

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

HEAD, RICHARD c.1637 c.1686, English writer. His best-known work is The English Rogue (1665), a collection of crude picaresque stories. Sequels to this work were written by Francis Kirkman. Among his other fictional biographies of rogues are Floating...
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Jong, Erica

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...zhong, 1942 , American novelist and poet, b. New York City. She created a sensation with Fear of Flying (1973), a comic, picaresque novel of sex and psychiatry that challenged conventional views of women. Her other works include the poems in Half Lives...
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AlemÁn, Mateo

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...a turbulent life, was sent to jail twice for his debts, and at the age of 60 found refuge in Mexico. The first part of his picaresque novel, Guzman de Alfarache, was published in 1599 and the second part in 1604. Written with moralizing overtones, the novel...
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Reuter, Christian

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...t r, 1665 c.1712, German writer of satiric fiction and drama. Reuters Schelmuffsky (1696, tr. 1962) was among the first picaresque novels in German. His plays for the traveling theater, including Graf Ehrenfried (1700), Die frohlockende Spree the rejoicing...

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