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Book The Reception of the Picaresque in the French  English  and German Traditions

Download or read book The Reception of the Picaresque in the French English and German Traditions written by Ellen Turner Gutiérrez and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reception of the Picaresque in the French, English, and German Traditions is a metacritical study of the picaresque as it has been perceived in three major Western critical traditions. The study opens with a critical analysis of the origins of the picaresque novel as a genre in the Siglo de Oro in Spain. Three following sections detail the historical development of Gattungskonzepte of the picaresque in three major European traditions. Literary critics, trained in different traditions, will gain an appreciation for works from neighboring cultures.

Book The Picaresque

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  • Author : Carmen Benito-Vessels
  • Publisher : University of Delaware Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780874134582
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book The Picaresque written by Carmen Benito-Vessels and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like cartographers after the Treaty of Versailles, contemporary critics of picaresque literature are hard at work redrawing lines and polemicizing boundaries in an attempt to resolve prevailing problems of definition and method. To reevaluate this canon of texts and to address critical issues, a group of internationally renowned scholars gathered in April 1989 for a two-day conference, "The Picaresque: A Symposium on the Rogue's Tale," which was held at the University of Maryland at College Park and sponsored by the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies in conjunction with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. The essays in this volume grew out of this scholarly exchange and map out an unusually broad landscape of contemporary critical concern." "The volume opens with an essay by Marina S. Brownlee, which addresses whether there is an "essential feature, configuration, or environment that determines the presence of a picaresque text." In his study of classicity in the Spanish Golden Age, Joseph V. Ricapito examines the Perez translation of the Odyssey and its link with the Spanish picaresque genre. Bruno M. Damiani's essay focuses on Lozana Andaluza as an important link between Celestina and the Lazarillo and investigates traits common in the later novel of roguery. "The Picaresque and Autobiography" by Randolph D. Pope examines the split vision of autobiography in Golden Age picaresque. Calhoun Winton looks into the rise of the picaresque novel in seventeenth-century London printing and publishing practice. Studying pamphlets, chapbooks, and periodicals, he poses the question: By whom were these examples of the picaresque mode written, for what reward, and with what audience in mind? Jerry C. Beasley's "Translation and Cultural Translatio" addresses questions of the translation of picaresque texts and the impact of this genre on novelistic discourse throughout Europe. In his essay Gerald Gillespie contextualizes Grimmelshausen's The Adventurous German Simplicissimus in French comic and satiric and Spanish disillusionistic modes. Nancy Vogeley examines Lizardi's Don Catrin de la Fechenda in the context of the Enlightenment and redefinition and politicization of the concepts of vice and virtue and discusses how these changing thought patterns facilitated the task of American writers who were then rethinking their political and moral landscape. Jerome Christensen's essay on Lord Byron investigates with primary and secondary textual sources the meaning of picaresque in Don Juan, establishes the vitality of the genre in this work, and looks into the distinction made between tuum and meum. The closing essay, Mario M. Gonzalez's "The Brazilian Picaresque," presents an overview of the genre in Brazilian literature." "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 from classical antiquity to contemporary theory."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book The Picaresque

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  • Author : Giancarlo Maiorino
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780816627233
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The Picaresque written by Giancarlo Maiorino and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Picaresque Tales" - parodic narratives relating the adventures of a rogue - have been central to the development of Spanish literature since the time of Cervantes. This text incorporates poststructuralist theory into a comprehensive treatment of such tales written during the Spainish Golden Age. The essays in this volume examine such works as "Lazarillo de Tormes", "Guzman de Alfarache" and "El buscon". The contributors address the connection between literary representation and everyday life, examining the context in which the Picaresque mode developed.

Book Elements of the Picaresque in Contemporary British Fiction

Download or read book Elements of the Picaresque in Contemporary British Fiction written by Ion Piso and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks back at the picaresque, with its Spanish roots, and especially with its tradition in English literature; then, it comes to contemporary times, and identifies elements of the picaresque in contemporary novels. The main thesis of the author is that the picaresque has never left the literary scene in Britain, being an aesthetic invariant, which expresses a natural inclination of the British authors towards the picaresque story. Postcolonial authors also favour this genre as a consequence of their own literary tradition, which includes particular variants of the picaresque, and as a result of their own situation as immigrant/displaced authors, which gives them material for stories of displaced characters – rogues. The study rigorously identifies the sources of the contemporary protocols of the picaresque, as well as a few variants of picaresque stories in a selection of novels the author accounts for theoretically.

Book Women and the Rise of the Novel  1405 1726

Download or read book Women and the Rise of the Novel 1405 1726 written by J. Donovan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726 is the first theoretical study of early modern women's contribution to the rise of the novel. Named in its first edition an 'Outstanding Academic Book of the Year,' by Choice, this second, expanded edition includes two new chapters that extend its scope to include philosophical writings and memoirs.

Book The Picaresque

Download or read book The Picaresque written by Harry Sieber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1977, this book studies the picaresque as a literary genre. It begins by discriminating between the literature of roguery and the picaresque in particular before discussing the origins of the genre in Spain and tracing its development into Europe. The book concludes with a brief description of ‘contemporary’ works which belong to the same tradition. In tracing the itinerary of the picaro in Europe and in America, it attempts to define a ‘myth’ of the picaresque which consists of two phases: the first being the traditional Spanish model of the picaresque and the second comprising of an ‘anti-picaresque’ myth, in which the ‘hero’ or ‘anti-hero’ no longer remains alienated but instead is the figure in which the ‘new’ society is formed.

Book Rogue s Progress

Download or read book Rogue s Progress written by Robert Alter and published by Cambridge, Harvard U.P. This book was released on 1964 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature

Download or read book The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature written by J. A. Garrido Ardila and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the sixteenth century, Western literature has produced picaresque novels penned by authors across Europe, from Alemán, Cervantes, Lesage and Defoe to Cela and Mann. Contemporary authors of neopicaresque are renewing this traditional form to express twenty-first-century concerns. Notwithstanding its major contribution to literary history, as one of the founding forms of the modern novel, the picaresque remains a controversial literary category, and its definition is still much contested. The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature examines the development of the picaresque, chronologically and geographically, from its origins in sixteenth-century Spain to the neopicaresque in Europe and the United States.

Book Upstarts  Wanderers Or Swindlers  Anatomy of the Picaro

Download or read book Upstarts Wanderers Or Swindlers Anatomy of the Picaro written by Pellon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature

Download or read book Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature written by Warren Chernaik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual freedom and ideology explored in the works of seventeenth-century English literature.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1976 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Genre and Women s Life Writing in Early Modern England

Download or read book Genre and Women s Life Writing in Early Modern England written by Michelle M. Dowd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By taking account of the ways in which early modern women made use of formal and generic structures to constitute themselves in writing, the essays collected here interrogate the discursive contours of gendered identity in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The contributors explore how generic choice, mixture, and revision influence narrative constructions of the female self in early modern England. Collectively they situate women's life writings within the broader textual culture of early modern England while maintaining a focus on the particular rhetorical devices and narrative structures that comprise individual texts. Reconsidering women's life writing in light of recent critical trends-most notably historical formalism-this volume produces both new readings of early modern texts (such as Margaret Cavendish's autobiography and the diary of Anne Clifford) and a new understanding of the complex relationships between literary forms and early modern women's 'selves'. This volume engages with new critical methods to make innovative connections between canonical and non-canonical writing; in so doing, it helps to shape the future of scholarship on early modern women.

Book The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature

Download or read book The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature written by Janet Pérez and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of English Literature

Download or read book A History of English Literature written by William Vaughn Moody and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Theology of La Lozana Andaluza

Download or read book The Theology of La Lozana Andaluza written by Pamela S. Brakhage and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Katrin Berndt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the British novel in the long eighteenth century, when this genre emerged to develop into the period’s most versatile and popular literary form. Part I features six systematic chapters that discuss literary, intellectual, socio-economic, and political contexts, providing innovative approaches to issues such as sense and sentiment, gender considerations, formal characteristics, economic history, enlightened and radical concepts of citizenship and human rights, ecological ramifications, and Britain’s growing global involvement. Part II presents twenty-five analytical chapters that attend to individual novels, some canonical and others recently recovered. These analyses engage the debates outlined in the systematic chapters, undertaking in-depth readings that both contextualize the works and draw on relevant criticism, literary theory, and cultural perspectives. The handbook’s breadth and depth, clear presentation, and lucid language make it attractive and accessible to scholar and student alike.

Book A Companion to the Spanish Picaresque Novel

Download or read book A Companion to the Spanish Picaresque Novel written by Edward H. Friedman and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an international group of scholars, this edited collection provides an overview of the Spanish picaresque from its origins in tales of lowborn adventurers to its importance for the modern novel, along with consideration of the debates that the picaresque has inspired.