The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature

From the Sixteenth Century to the Neopicaresque

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ID23788967
EditorsJ A Garrido Ardila
Year2014
Publication date2014-05-21
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenuePicaresque Novel in Western Literature (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139382687
OpenAlexW2271267034
ISBN9781139382687
LanguageEN
Citations received4

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.

Art · History of literature · Literature · Western europe · Western literature · Early Modern Spanish Literature · History

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