Picaresque Novel in Western Literature

Journal Data

TypeSOURCE_BOOK
PublisherCambridge University Press (US)
ISBN-139781139382687
Open LibraryOL21099448W
Total publications6
Coverage period2014 - 2015
LanguageEN

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.