| Description |
x, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Birth of the picaresque: Lazarillo de Tormes and the socializing process -- Dissemination of the picaresque: Guzmán de Alfarache and the converso problem -- In the wake of Guzmán: variations on the picaresque-life theme -- El Buscón: Quevedo's annihilation of the picaresque -- Waning of the Spanish picaresque: El diablo cojuelo and Estebanillo González -- Translations and transitions -- Universality of the picaresque: visions of truth in Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus -- Ambiguous success of the picaresque hero in Defoe's Moll Flanders -- Picaresque hero arrives: sentiment and success in Lesage's Gil Blas -- Picaresque hero as young nobleman: victimization and vindication in Smollett's Roderick Random. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Picaresque literature, European -- History and criticism.
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Picaresque literature, European. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Bjornson, Richard. Picaresque hero in European fiction. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1977 (OCoLC)567907200 |
| ISBN |
0299071006 : $15.00 |
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9780299071004 |
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