The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Neopicaresque

The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Neopicaresque
ISBN-10
131629854X
ISBN-13
9781316298541
Category
Literary Criticism
Language
English
Published
2015-05-19
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
J. A. Garrido Ardila

Description

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.

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