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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

...attempt to historicize the literary picaresque enterprise as a whole...recurrent motif in the literary history of picaresque fiction since Chandler...documentation. My attempt at a literary history of picaresque narrative will trace...
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Gender and Literary Voice

Book by Janet Todd; Holmes & Meier, 1980

Subjects:

Authorship--Sex Differences, Gender Identity In Literature, Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Style, Literary

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

GENDER AND LITERARY VOICE " Women Literature " , Volume 1 new series : Gender and Literary Voice Edited by Janet Todd Previously...volume will focus on a specific theme in literary or artistic criticism, the first one exploring...
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Literary Computing and Literary Criticism: Theoretical and Practical Essays on Theme and Rhetoric

Book by Rosanne G. Potter; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989

Subjects:

Criticism--Data Processsing, English Language--Style--Data Processing, English Literature--History And Criticism--Data Processsing, English Literature--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Style, Literary--Data Processing

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

LITERARY COMPUTING AND LITERARY CRITICISM edited by ROSANNE G. POTTER University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia 1989 LITERARY COMPUTING and LITERARY CRITICISM Theoretical and...
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New Poets from Old: A Study in Literary Genetics

Book by Henry W. Wells; Columbia University Press, 1940

Subjects:

Literature--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Poetry, Style, Literary

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...OLD NEW POETS FROM OLD A Study in Literary Genetics By HENRY W. WELLS, Columbia...first chapter reviews general problems of literary indebtedness and outstanding movements...verse has, then, no real ground in any literary tradition whatsoever. In his recent book...
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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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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

Creating the Rogue Hero: Literary Devices in the Picaresque Novels of Martin Amis, Richard...of the rogue--that is, the literary devices writers employ to maintain...balance, I believe, is what makes picaresques not only more fun than other...
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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, and we see that the...catalogue of characters and literary works listed throughout, the...examination of the new American picaresque novel. After reading it, you...
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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

...and the Early Picaresque. (Purdue Studies...representative literary texts of early...number of major literary texts of the period: the picaresque novels Lazarillo...perspectives in the picaresque. To turn to...large number of literary texts he rakes...
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Games and Play in Jane Austen's Literary Structures

Journal article by David Selwyn; Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, Vol. 23, 2001

Subjects:

Austen, Jane--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, English--Criticism and interpretation, English literature--Criticism and interpretation, English writers--Criticism and interpretation, Games--Portrayals, Literary criticism, Literary styles--Criticism and interpretation, Play--Portrayals, Style, Literary--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Beechen Cliff on the picturesque brings in another popular literary form. In his genial rallying of Catherine on language, or...Furthermore, though it could hardly be said to be in the picaresque tradition of Moll Flanders or Tom Jones, the novel does provide...
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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

...1 In the case of the picaresque novel, this fiction draws on elements from many literary and folk traditions to...regard the classical picaresques link with (or deviation...materializes. Thus, the picaresque narrative uses confessional...

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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

Collections: Entire Library

...of Language and the Picaresque, on a Roll. by...fewer than twenty-one literary services he declined...the form of a sweeping picaresque tale of adventure in...open and relentlessly picaresque. Whether the final volume...Talents and Technicians: Literary Chic and the New Assembly-Line...
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Poetic Licence: Peter Carey's Novel about a Notorious Australian Literary Hoax Isn't Quite What It Promises

Magazine article by Hugo Barnacle; New Statesman, Vol. 132, September 22, 2003

Subjects:

My Life as a Fake (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...happened. Anyway, from there the story takes off into the picaresque realm that Carey often likes to explore. Chubb explains that...distinctive, does not say as much about the strange roots of literary inspiration as it purports to, and in the end the storyline...
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The River and the Road: Fashions in Forgiveness

Magazine article by Clara Clairborne Park; American Scholar, Vol. 66, Winter 1997

Subjects:

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Imperialism in literature--Criticism and interpretation, Imperialism--Criticism and interpretation, Imperialism--Portrayals, Kim (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Kipling, Rudyard--Criticism and interpretation, Literature--Criticism and interpretation, Politics and literature--Criticism and interpretation, Politics--Criticism and interpretation, Slavery and slaves in literature--Criticism and interpretation, Slavery--Criticism and interpretation, Slavery--Portrayals, Twain, Mark--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Kiplings art to these two "picaresque narratives, with boys...define the specialties of literary scholars." He is certainly...class boy he gave a literary sanction for the admiration...with "episodic" and "picaresque." And these are only...Kipling too called Kim "picaresque and plotless"; he told...
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McKim, Mead & White's Architectural Citizenship

Magazine article by Michael J. Lewis; New Criterion, Vol. 25, September 2006

Subjects:

American architecture--Forecasts and trends, American architecture--History, Architectural firms--History, Architectural firms--Influence, Architectural practice--History, Architectural practice--Influence, Architectural services--History, Architectural services--Influence, Architecture, American--Forecasts and trends, Architecture, American--History

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...indeed possible that Twains picaresque adventure could be so influential...that the mark of the truly literary product was a grandiosity...shunned by self-consciously literary writing, but humorous writing...Russell Sturgis. He too had literary connections: His sister married...
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Provocateur of Surreal Screens

Magazine article by Alberto Casciero; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 45, May-June 1993

Subjects:

Bunuel, Luis--Biography, Filmmakers--Biography, Motion pictures, Spanish--Production and direction

Collections: Entire Library

...narrative has elements of the Spanish picaresque novel. The blind man of Los olvidados...recognized as the first work of the picaresque genre. Even the moment in which Ojitos...that Bunuel found an affinity with the picaresque novel, which is characterized by a critical...

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Enjoy Bawdy Cervantes Playlets at Warehouse

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 1, 2003

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

...seen bawdy playlets by the great Spanish literary master Miguel de Cervantes. Many Americans...Except that what he actually penned was a picaresque tome of interlocking adventures entitled...to catch a glimpse of another richly literary European culture, one thats becoming...
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It's Hard to Find Defoe's Moll in Adapted 'Flanders'

Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, June 14, 1996

Subjects:

Defoe, Daniel, Flanders

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

...Flanders" also fails to keep adequate faith with a formidable literary source. According to the credits, Mr. Denshams screenplay...Penitent." Having "spoiled" the plot, Defoe goes on to sustain a picaresque life story anyway. Mr. Densham touches base with certain...
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Swashbuckler without Edge; Dull, Preachy 'Scaramouche'

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 10, 2003

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

...reads aloud stirring quotes about liberty and revolution from literary and political immortals such as Victor Hugo, Voltaire, and...the play is ever going to get started. The hero in this picaresque tale is Andre-Louis Moreau (Hugh T. Owen), a child of mysterious...
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2000 Fall Arts Preview

Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, September 16, 2000

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

...Stalingrad in "Enemy at the Gates." Seniority among the prestige literary titles goes to Henry James "The Golden Bowl," by director...apocryphal movie title for "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" a picaresque comedy-drama about fugitives from a Southern chain gang during...
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CULTURE: Shepherd Shines Light on British History; Actor and Writer Jack Shepherd Tells Terry Grimley Why He Believes Theatre Audiences Are Ready for Serious Plays about Revolution and Citizenship

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), November 10, 2004

Subjects:

Cromwell, Oliver

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

...a play about the revolution that never happened - the Chartist Revolution - in a totally different, scabrous, Dickensian, picaresque style - which would go in-between these two plays. Jonathan Church is very interested . . . Through a Cloud is at The Door...

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Novel

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...Ages a popular literary form was the romance...Blas (1715 35), a picaresque Span. picaro...which relates the picaresque adventures of a...All of of these literary features combine...revival of the picaresque novel, is romantic...the novel as a literary genre. A lesser...
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Japanese Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...subjects: didactic tracts, travel guides, essays, satires, and picaresque fiction. Ihara Saikaku was the foremost master of this...an ironic look at a world of pleasure and eroticism. The literary tastes of the bourgeoisie also contributed to the development...
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Berger, Thomas

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...Vital Parts (1970), and Reinharts Women (1981) follows a picaresque, sometime title character through the vagaries of four decades...20th-century American life. Berger has also satirized several literary genres the Western in Little Big Man (1964), perhaps his...
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Mann, Thomas

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...Felix Krull, Confidence Man, 1955), a picaresque comedy adapted from an earlier fragment...two general categories political and literary. His autobiographical essay Betrachtungen...Day (1942). Manns own selection of his literary essays appeared in English as Essays...
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Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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