THE PICARESQUE NOVEL IN WESTERN LITERATURE "FROM THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO THE NEOPICARESQUE"

GARRIDO ARDILA, J. A.

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ISBN:978-1-107-03165-4
EAN:9781107031654
Editorial: CAMBRIDGE U. P.
Fecha de la edición:2015
Número de la edición: 1
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Encuadernación:CARTONE
Nº Pág.:304
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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 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. - A comprehensive overview of the development of the picaresque genre across Western literatures, including Spain, England, France, Germany, Russia, and Latin America - The introduction examines the contentious issue of the definition of the picaresque and proposes new ways to understand the genre - Chapters provide a chronology of the picaresque from the precursors of the genre in Classical Rome and sixteenth-century Europe to the neopicaresque in the twentieth century