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Research Topics on: picaresque tales

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Books on: picaresque tales

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Newspaper Articles on: picaresque tales

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  • After September 11; Don DeLillo's Searing Tale of a Family's Unease
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 1, 2007
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    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    After September 11; Don DeLillos Searing Tale of a Familys Unease. Byline: Bruce Allen, SPECIAL TO THE...the truest successors to Pynchons encyclopedic cautionary tales, so does his masterly 15th novel loom (the verb seems both...evident since his books began appearing in the 1970s. From the picaresque "road" novel "Americana" (1971), he moved to a satiric...
     
  • Mapping Brave History of Wild West in Tales of Good and Evil
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 24, 2003
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Mapping brave history of Wild West in tales of good and evil. Byline: Bill Croke, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON...Estlemans "Big Tim Magoon and the Wild West" is a comic tale of Buffalo Bill Codys Wild West Shows visit to a small western...the drunkenly swaggering Plainsman for a series of ill fated picaresque adventures that ultimately threaten both his wallet and political...
     
  • Touching Tale from Poet of Trailer Park Set; Larry Brown Delights Readers Once More
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 12, 2003
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    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Touching tale from poet of trailer park set; Larry Brown delights readers once more...Brown can be subtle in one paragraph and outrageous in the next. The picaresque "Rabbit Factory" is not so powerful a work as Mr. Browns breathtaking...
     
  • Fresh Tale of How Character Counts or Not, Pursuing Journalistic Game
    Newspaper article by Woody West; The Washington Times, June 3, 2001
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Fresh tale of how character counts or not, pursuing...novel that essentially is a mordant and picaresque romp through Washingtons politico-journalistic...netherworld of cable television - is a tale of implacable ambition joined to an eagerness...
     
  • Truthful, Sweet Tale of Refugee Life, by Writer in Her Prime
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 19, 2004
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    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Truthful, Sweet Tale of Refugee Life, by Writer in Her Prime. Byline: Martin Rubin...all-American wastrel, burdened by every advantage given him. His picaresque odyssey through life and his fatal nihilism render him as fascinating...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: picaresque tales

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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

    ...literary success with fanciful and romantic tales of his native Ukraine in Evenings on a...century Cossack. Gogol then wrote several tales set in St. Petersburg. The most famous...in this as in all his mature work. His picaresque novel Dead Souls (1842) concerns the...
     
  • Bieler, Manfred
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...night watch (1963), a portrait of contemporary times. The picaresque novel Bonifaz oder der Matrose in der Flasche (1963; tr...international fame. He has also written Marchen und Zeitungen fairy tales and newspapers (1966), and a novel, The Three Daughters...
     
  • Japanese Literature
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...the Heike monogatari tale of the Heike, an epic...sensibility. Buddhist tale literature, ranging...Konjaku monogatari shu tales from past and present...essays, satires, and picaresque fiction. Ihara Saikaku...long Confucian didactic tales. Western Influence After...based in part on earlier tale literature and folklore...
     
  • Spanish American Literature
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...novel, The Itching Parrot (1816; tr. 1942), a work in the picaresque genre. Jose Joaquin Olmedo celebrated the victories of Bolivar...indigenous literary genre. The gaucho , long the hero of popular tales and ballads, became the subject of some of the most original...