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......last looked at the state of literary biography (March 1987, p...fiction can be a medium of literary excellence. Holmes, Richard...forbidding subject for the literary biographer, Coleridge is...unfolds here like a sprawling picaresque novel: vast, shapeless......

......1955), which was hailed as a comic (picaresque and bawdy) masterpiece when it was published...author has a place on the international literary landscape with his rolling, alliterating...solitude, and with how little the English literary set knows of him. Donleavy was alone......

......1891) The central characters in Gissing's novel of London literary life are "an alarmingly modern" journalist named Jasper...Douglas, described by the NS's reviewer as an "engaging picaresque charlatan", turns up at a textiles factory in Peckham......

......there are more than 100 characters in What Ever, a lanky picaresque whose main protagonists are teenage wanderers. Walt Whitman...an heir of the oral tradition's riffs and rants than the literary novelist's carefully modulated art. "I envisioned it as......

......mythology which, like the mythology re-told by Ovid in his long picaresque tale, is densely packed with incident after incident that...Fell's ceramic sculptures, however, are not bookish or literary, but of the heart. She retells central events in all of......

......On the road of life--nel cammin' di nostra vita--the picaresque wanderer courted danger, tempted fate, skirted sex, found...hitchhiking epic is essentially a folk myth rather than a literary artifice, and the best examples have been passed by word......

......and doing routines from the book. Its picaresque sense of the frontiers of the psyche...retrospectively, to explain the plethora of literary directions in which reportage was headed...author featured as a character; another picaresque array of routines. In Herr's book......

......far from unique. Carter's literary reputation had been relatively...feminist agenda. Many of her literary preoccupations - the challenging...writers had her imagination or literary audacity. Few had her power...sprawling, garrulous book, a picaresque story of Rabelaisian proportions......

......point, we are not far from a literary group to which Mathews belongs...detractors, this identification of literary artifice with masturbation...times, he has legislated a literary Utopia where the race or sex...novels as well: Tlooth (a picaresque tale on the horrors of dentistry......

...TWO LITERARY GIANTS STRIDE THROUGH THE...met--surely that's a literary juxtaposition that someone...what they saw as moribund literary forms into living reflections...Wilson recasting Woolf's picaresque Orlando as a solo tour de......