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Four Types of Picaresque Fiction
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The Picaresque Novel of Mexico
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The Picaresque in Six Afro-American Novels
… and Their Eyes Were Watching God are distinctly picaresque. The genre continues a tradition begun with the trickster tales of Africa (Anansi, the Spider and others), then transformed by Blacks in the American South into stories of the exploits of Brer Rabbit (Aunt Nancy), Slave John, and …
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The cultural and rhetorical elements of American picaresque
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"The Medieval Background Of ""lazarillo De Tormes"" And The Picaresque"
… against the background of the 17th century picaresque novel which followed it. The true problem we perceive in arriving at an understanding of the novel's origins is that of evolving a critical model which permits scholars to give proper value to various "obras prepicarescas" neither …
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The Picaresque Tradition in The Contemporary English and American Novel
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Picaresque and romance in Golden Age Spain and postcolonial Britain : a comparative study
… Golden Age Spain and postmodern Britain. Picaresque and romance are chosen to illustrate how authors question religious oppression, cultural intolerance and thought control within multicultural contexts. Cervantes and Rushdie give voice to marginalised minorities and deconstruct the …
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The Picaresque Tradition in English Fiction to 1770: A Study of Popular Backgrounds, With Particular Attention to Fielding and Smollett
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The Post-WWII American Picaro as Prophet of Human Dignity: A Study of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away, and Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King
… R.W.B. Lewis, often discussed the picaro and the picaresque, but recent American scholarship has not revisited the role and importance of this figure and genre.</p> <p>This study employs the methodologies of historicism, formalism, and intellectual history to explain how American authors in the …
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Female Bildung Before Goethe: An Early Modern Rogue's Endowment
… contests is genre critics’ placement of the picaresque tradition deriving from Spain where the rogue or picaresque is synonymous with its genre rather than embodying a protagonist. I posit that the English version of the rogue was female and arose from a criminal confessional pamphlet, first …
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(Re)covering lost lore : folklore adaptations in Zora Neale Hurston and Gloria Naylor.
… Western myth, African forms, fairy tale, and the picaresque all influence the African lore of the American South. In doing so, Hurston creates a more complicated picture of African American folklore. She reveals that myth, a term that will be used to denote Western mythology, communicates the …
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The autobiography of childhood and youth from Fontane to Carossa: Four case studies
… Jean Starobinski's model of the elegiac and picaresque forms of autobiography applies to the childhood autobiography. While the structure of autobiography is preserved, there are distinct features resulting from the limited time frame. The forward movement of the autobiography is accentuated, …
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Bomb
… of this thesis is to explore the concept of the picaresque novel using modern concerns and fears – holding closely to the established traditions of this lineage, but updating the subject matter in an attempt to move from satire to something truly unnerving. This novel borrows from several …
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The festive wound : L'Anormâle and El Quemado : twin fictions
… undercut by a narrator whose experiences are as picaresque as his meditations would be profound. Alternating levels of diction, double-entendres, false endings, dreams and hallucination are all employed to heighten the subjective character of the narrator's experience
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Reading Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus as a political treatise between Hobbes and Locke
… writer Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen’s picaresque novel Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch (1668). This thesis argues that the novel contains the three-part political argument found in the contemporary political treatises of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan (1651) and John Locke’s Second …
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A ceaseless becoming : narratives of adolescence across media
… adolescence narratives, prototypes for the picaresque novel, the school story, and the Bildungsroman are examined, and each are shown to contain narrative conventions that survive in recent works. A contemporary case study looks at the trilogy of female coming of age films by Sofia Coppola …
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Genre and Politics in the Historical Fictions of William Godwin and Mary Shelley
… and the blend of genres, including the picaresque and the gothic.<br/><br/>Chapter II will explore William Godwin’s second historical novel Mandeville; or, A Tale of the Seventeenth Century (1817). It will focus on Godwin’s examination of individual motivation and the impact of trauma. …
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Revising Rhetorical Theory in "My Bondage and My Freedom": Narrativizing and Theorizing a Rhetoric of Blackness
… confession, the travel narrative, and the picaresque novel. He borrows from these forms to display his literary dexterity but also to enact a sort of rhetorical theory. His descriptions, sequence of events, and the way in which he orchestrates his text enact a rhetorical framework for …
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Mariah Black: A Novel
<p>Mariah Black is the picaresque tale of Russell Fingers, a failed jazz musician who takes a stab at success playing bass in a hard rock band called Mariah Black. In the opening chapter of the novel, Russell, on the heels of yet another failed project, steals a rare double bass from the back of a …
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Sacred Categories: Saul Bellow, Friendship, and the Novel
… determines the novel’s form as a ‘freewheeling’, picaresque *Bildungsroman*; I then demonstrate how this vision of friendship is challenged, continued, and modified in *Seize the Day* (1956) and *Henderson the Rain King* (1959). Chapter Two explores a different model of friendship, and hence a …
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