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Spanish Picaresque Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 364
Authors: Peter N. Dunn
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Exiled to the margins of society and surviving by his wits in the course of his wanderings, the picaro marks a sharp contrast to the high-born characters on who
The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: J. A. Garrido Ardila
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-19 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Since the sixteenth century, Western literature has produced picaresque novels penned by authors across Europe, from Alemán, Cervantes, Lesage and Defoe to Cel
Transgression and Subversion
Language: en
Pages: 219
Authors: Maren Lickhardt
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-30 - Publisher: transcript Verlag

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Is the pícaro, the roguish hero of early modern Spanish adventure fiction, a 'real man'? What position does he hold in the gender hierarchy of his fictional so
The Spanish Picaresque Novel and the Point of View
Language: en
Pages: 159
Authors: Francisco Rico
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984-03-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The Spanish picaresque novel of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is not only a major genre in its own right; it was a decisive influence on the subsequen
A Companion to the Spanish Picaresque Novel
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Edward H. Friedman
Categories: Picaresque literature, Spanish
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-09-20 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

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Written by an international group of scholars, this edited collection provides an overview of the Spanish picaresque from its origins in tales of lowborn advent