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 54.
Physical Description:1 online resource (315 pages)
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505 0 0 |a Preliminary Material -- Introduction: A Journey around the Picaresque Novel -- History through Roguish Eyes -- Alienation and Counter-culture -- Women on the Edge: Sexuality and Gender Dissent -- Humour and the Muffled Voice of Reason -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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