10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PICARESQUE»
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picaresque in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
picaresque and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
The only thing I know that I can compare it to is Gorky's The Lower Depths. I love the richness of the phrasing, musical and rhythmical, mixing the vocabularies of piracy, drugs, crime and homelessness. This is real poetry.
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Picaresque narrative,
picaresque fictions: a theory and ...
"All in all, an excellent book, recommended for all libraries supporting collections in comparative literature." st and Academic Library Book Review
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The
Picaresque: A Symposium on the Rogue's Tale
This volume represents the diversity of scholarly approaches to the study of picaresque and opens up new questions concerning the picaresque canon, especially regarding its criteria for the definition of parameters that include elements ...
Carmen Benito-Vessels, Michael O. Zappala, 1994
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Spanish
Picaresque Fiction: A New Literary History
In this illuminating book, Peter N. Dunn offers a fresh view of the gamut of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish picaresque fiction.
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Road-book America: Contemporary Culture and the New
Picaresque
In this wide-ranging and sophisticated study, Rowland Sherrill explores the resurgence and transformation of an old literary form - the picaresque narrative - into a new form that he shows to be both responsive and instructive to late ...
Rowland A. Sherrill, 2000
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Tales from Spanish
Picaresque Novels: A Motif-Index
Though his tricks constitute the main interest in the novels, the picaro's satirical comments give a wealth of information on the social, political and religious background of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain.
James Wesley Childers, 1977
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Play and the
Picaresque: Lazarillo de Tormes, Libro de ...
Analyses three important Latin American novels in an attempt to redefine the nature of the picaresque, especially in regard to the roles of spontaneous play and carnivalesque laughter.
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The Spanish
Picaresque Novel and the Point of View
Rico illuminates the point of view of the narrator in three of the greatest picaresque novels.
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Discourses of Poverty: Social Reform and the
Picaresque ...
Cruz examines the treatment of poverty, prostitution, war, and other social concerns in the cultural and literary discourses of early modern Spain.
A picaresque tale is a book in diary form about Ashley Redbridge.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PICARESQUE»
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picaresque is used in the context of the following news items.
Candide review (QPAC, Brisbane)
This glorious satirical romp is a picaresque story sending up the philosophical doctrine called Optimism, founded on the 18th century theology ... «Daily Review, Jul 15»
Winning films announced at 2015 IFP Phoenix Beat The Clock …
A group of swingers attend a key party and get it on AZ indie style. That sentence has way more relevance than it should. Picaresque pic shot in ... «Examiner.com, Jul 15»
Walker Percy, the South, gentlemen, God…and me….
At this point the novel becomes a mini- picaresque as Will wanders from New York to Pennsylvania to South Carolina to Georgia and finally to ... «Scholars and Rogues, Jul 15»
My hero: EL Doctorow by Michael Schmidt
It is a road novel, a picaresque adventure. Is it true? No, Billy's voice is nuanced beyond his years and education. Is it credible? Yes, because ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
The pull of the city is emptying rural England - and making it look …
The picaresque 18th-century fiction of Henry Fielding and Tobias Smollett positively crawls with naive newcomers to the big city being gulled ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
The Ginger Man review: Dangerfield at 60 – still sailing his dream …
Considering that it is a fluidly flamboyant comic picaresque, the prevailing mood of The Ginger Man in general, and of Dangerfield in particular, ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
Christian Kracht's 'Imperium'
... more like skirmishes than relationships, which unfortunately plays up the random, “one damn thing after another” aspect of this picaresque. «New York Times, Jul 15»
'Absolute Beginners': Evoking MGM Spectacle With '80s Video Style
... movies of the late 1970s, but its picaresque structure can be traced back to Ron Rice's 1960 beatnik vérité, “The Flower Thief,” which featured ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
'Tangerine' is a devastating comedy about sex work with a hint of …
Here, a journey-back-to-a-partner tale is bent into a picaresque sprint through Los Angeles with fresh-outta-jail trans woman sex worker ... «Baltimore City Paper, Jul 15»
Movie Listings for July 24-30
Stanley Kubrick's ice-cold picaresque “Barry Lyndon” (screening Saturday and Sunday) is easily the best-known of this week's five entries ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
