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1 online resource (315 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Postmodern studies ; Volume 54
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Postmodern studies ; Volume 54.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Picaresque Fiction Today: The Trickster in Contemporary Anglophone and Italian Literature; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A Journey around the Picaresque Novel; 1: History through Roguish Eyes; Foreword; History and Picaresque Fiction; Meaning and Significance in Historical Fiction; The Pićaro and History; Dual Sign Irony; 'Historical' Irony; Deictic Markers of Time and Space; Polemical Use of the Allocutive Pronoun 'you'; Metonymy; Markers of 'being' and 'seeming'; Otto, Baudolino, Niketas: Three Portraits of the Emperor; The Death of Two Obsessions |
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2: Alienation and Counter-cultureForeword; The Picaresque Counter-culture; What Happens at the Boundary?; The Stranger, der Fremde, l'estraneo; Mirror Symmetry and Alienation; Mythological and Metadescriptive Consciousness; Homonyms/Synonyms; Circumlocution; Euphemism; Synecdoche; Acting vs Improvising; Rhetorical Questions; Odilo's Private Holocaust; 3: Women on the Edge: Sexuality and Gender Dissent; Foreword; Platonic Love and the Pićara; Cupid, Psyche and Curiosity; The Constraints of Nature; Procreation; Parenthood; The Constraints of Society; Demystified Women; Religion |
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Sentimental LovePrimeval Innocence; Literature, Ambition and Transcendence in Vendita Galline km 2; King Lear's Pasteboard Crown; 4: Humour and the Muffled Voice of Reason; Foreword; Varieties of Humour in the Picaresque; Irony; Irony in the Picaresque: Benni and Doyle; Contradiction; Self-irony; Summary; Satire; Self-satire; Parody; The Enlightened Grin; The Enlightenment Watershed; Individualism, Common Good and General Will; Experience and Causation; The Question of Happiness; God's Laughter in Saltatempo; Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
In 'Picaresque Fiction Today' Luigi Gussago examines the development of the picaresque in contemporary Anglophone and Italian fiction. Far from being an extinct narrative form, confined to the pages of its original Spanish sources or their later British imitators, the tale of roguery has been revisited through the centuries from a host of disparate angles. Throughout their wanderings, picaresque antiheroes are dragged into debates on the credibility of historical facts, gender mystifications, rational thinking, or any simplistic definition of the outcast. Referring to a corpus of eight contemporary novels, the author retraces a textual legacy linking the traditional picaresque to its recent descendants, with the main purpose of identifying the way picaresque novels offer a privileged insight into our sceptical times. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Picaresque literature, European -- History and criticism.
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Picaresque literature, European. |
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Tricksters in literature.
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Tricksters in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gussago, Luigi. Picaresque fiction today : the trickster in contemporary Anglophone and Italian literature. Leiden : Brill, [2016] Postmodern studies ; Volume 54 9789004311220 |
| ISBN |
9004311238 |
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9789004311237 (electronic book) |
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9789004311220 (hardback ; acidfree paper) |
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900431122X (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004311237 |
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