Picaresque fiction today : the trickster in contemporary Anglophone and Italian literature / / by Luigi Gussago.
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 revisite...
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| Superior document: | Postmodern Studies ; 54 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016] |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Postmodern Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (315 pages) |
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| 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. Cover illustration by Eugene Ivanov \'Night Airing\', 2007. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004311238 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Luigi Gussago. |