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Your search for: picaresque AND literary


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Books on: picaresque literary

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Journal Articles on: picaresque literary

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Magazine Articles on: picaresque literary

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Newspaper Articles on: picaresque literary

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    Lively Literary Companion
    Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 10, 2011
    Subjects: 
    Sutherland, John
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...one deduces, must be a literary critic." Sutherland himself is a very distinctive literary critic. An Emeritus Professor...Kipling here) or of polite literary sensibilities ("Jane...combine a sharp apercu with picaresque expression. Muriel Sparks...
     
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    Chinese Writer Su Tong's 'Boat to Redemption' Wins Man Asian Literary Prize
    Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 28, 2009
    Subjects: 
    Chinese Communist Party
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Redemption Wins Man Asian Literary Prize. HONG KONG mdash...refuted has won the Man Asian Literary Prize, organizers said...called the novel ldquo;a picaresque novel of immense charm. rdquo...Founded in 2007, the Man Asian Literary Prize is awarded annually...
     
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    Literary Fiction
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 27, 2012
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Literary Fiction. Byline: STEPHANIE CROSS THIS ISNT THE SORT OF THING THAT HAPPENS...shape-shifting, storytelling conmen in fiction, their lives riotously picaresque. But Roopa Farookis unsentimental tale is more bitter than sweet, and...
     
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    Carey in the Running for Third Man Booker Prize
    Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 7, 2010
    Subjects: 
    Carey, Peter, Literary prizes
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Song, its successor, was a further gear change upwards. Described as "sensational" by the Sunday Telegraph and a "gutsy picaresque romp" by the Evening Standard, it is the story of July, a house slave on a sugar plantation in early 19th century Jamaica...
     
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    Carey Up for Third Man Booker Prize
    Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 7, 2010
    Subjects: 
    Carey, Peter, Literary prizes
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...adapted for television. The Long Song, its successor, was described as "sensational" by the Sunday Telegraph and a "gutsy picaresque romp" by the Evening Standard. It is the story of July, a slave on a sugar plantation in early 19th century Jamaica and...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: picaresque literary

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    Mann, Thomas
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...intellectual breadth, Mann developed literary themes that not only delved...Confidence Man, 1955), a picaresque comedy adapted from an earlier...general categories political and literary. His autobiographical essay...Manns own selection of his literary essays appeared in English...
     
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    Berger, Thomas
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Vital Parts (1970), and Reinharts Women (1981) follows a picaresque, sometime title character through the vagaries of four decades...century American life. Berger has also satirized several literary genres the Western in Little Big Man (1964), perhaps his...
     
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    Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...father of Russian realism. Of Ukrainian origin, he first won literary success with fanciful and romantic tales of his native Ukraine...folly are caricatured in this as in all his mature work. His picaresque novel Dead Souls (1842) concerns the rogue Chichikov who...
     
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    Novel
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...which relates the picaresque adventures of a good...punctuation. All of of these literary features combine to...about his work as a literary form and consciously...a revival of the picaresque novel, is romantic...examples of the novel as a literary genre. A lesser figure...
     
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    Spanish Literature
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Emperor Charles V, the first picaresque novel, Lazarillo de Tormes...de Cervantes Saavedra . The picaresque novel flourished; notable...midst of a general decline in literary creativity: Leandro Fernandez...examples of costumbrismo the literary depiction of local color...
     

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