... of the time as it helps to define new forms of realism and advances toward the realist novel of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As demonstrated in Don Quixote, Cervantes seems to have learned a valuable lesson from picaresque narrative (Lazarillo and its successor...

... of chapters presented diachronically, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, in addition to others devoted to specific novelistic traditions (the chivalric romance, the picaresque, the modernist novel, the avant-gardist novel) and to some of the most salient authors (Cervantes, Zayas, Pardo Bazán...

... of French and Iberian chivalric romance. From the 1560s, the Continental novella was also popular, particularly the works of Matteo Bandello. The late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries saw the growing influence of Don Quixote and Spanish picaresque, as well as a rich interchange between drama...

... of the picaresque classic Guzman de Alfarache, the lifting of the ban on the comedia, and the socio-genetic and ideological pressures of the period. This chapter contends that the fiction written by Cervantes during this period was a reaction to existing social and cultural...

...) and picaresque (Tobias Smollett). The epistolary mode is next experimented with in the 1790s to describe and define both revolutionary turmoil and colonial experience by authors such as Charlotte Smith, Eliza Fenwick, Phoebe Gibbes, and Charlotte Lennox. The early decades of the eighteenth century see...

.... Developed side by side with such “pipsqueak”-centered genres as the picaresque, they engaged in parallel play with them (pretending, that is, that the other doesn’t exist: think of Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders and Richard Steele’s The Conscious Lovers, or of John Cleland’s...

...The picaresque mode is a lens through which we can peel back the many layers of cultural memory that have accrued to the Great War moment, to uncover the attitudes, sensibilities, and worldviews of the men and women who lived through the war as it unfolded. Rather than seeing themselves as passive...

... the form of an autobiography of the trench rat Ferdinand and recounts Ferdinand’s adventures with his master, the poilu Juvenet. Chaine’s novel builds upon the uniquely French twist that was put on the picaresque tradition by Alain-René Lesage (Gil Blas) in the eighteenth...

...This chapter explores the pictorial picaresque. The cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather (Britain) and Francisque Poulbot (France) were as iconic in Great War Britain and France respectively as Bill Mauldin’s cartoons of Willie and Joe were in the United States during the Second World War. Like Mauldin...

...This chapter examines the history of translation in/of the picaresque novel in relation to the concepts of heteroglossia (Bakhtin, 1935) and intertextuality (Kristeva, 1984), studying the systematic strategy of borrowing intertexts that may be said to have played an important role...

..., deliberate irony, imagination, adventurousness, playfulness, and picaresque humor as celebrated by Thoreau in his essay Walking and as exemplified in A. R. Ammons’s book-length poem Garbage. ecocriticism ecology interdisciplinarity literary realism nature poetry nature...

... of Spain 1556–98 Rodrigo King of the Visigoths 688–711 Boscán Juan 1490–1542 Castiglione Baldassare 1478–1529 Cervantes Saavedra Persiles y Sigismunda Byzantine novel perspective of genre Heliodoran picaresque. Days before his death on 22 April 1616, Cervantes wrote the famously wry...

... of two friends” tradition, the book shows how the poetics of friendship evolves in relation to other key concepts from the period—most notably exemplarity and imitatio—in a series of carefully selected examples from several important genres including the pastoral novel, the picaresque...

... form of fiction—the ‘political picaresque’—deliberately eschewed the conventions of the bourgeois novel, especially the marriage plot, and its linking of marriage and inheritance with the appropriation of land. Wheeler’s formal innovations responded to the conditions of a time in which emigration, land...

...The Art of Survival: France and the Great War Picaresque is a new literary and cultural history of the First World War in France. It offers readers a fresh perspective on wartime popular culture, uncovering the attitudes and outlooks of the people who lived through the war one...

...During the first decade after the Restoration, terms to denote fiction such as ‘romance’ and ‘novel’ were often interchangeable. Many new works of fiction reference the civil war and the return of monarchy. Most declared a moral or didactic purpose, while others featured picaresque adventures, some...

...Discusses the picaresque gait in the 2-volume novel Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)by Mateo Alemán and its 1622 translation by James Mabbe called The Rogue. Analyses the ways in which walking has moral valence in this novel. Argues that the novel’s embodied imagery...

...This article analyzes the picaresque travel narratives, a genre peculiar to travel writing. This genre developed when travelers, temporarily removed from their familiar surroundings for work or pleasure, were prone to account for day-to-day happenings with the steady view of informing...

... Hamlet metonym remorse theme and variation Aeschylus literature classical nihilism paradox Pelopidas revenge rhetoric of substitution skepticism Virgília Bocage Manuel Maria Barbosa de dissimulation Molière Moses Pentateuch Shakespeare William Wordsworth William comedy picaresque...

... which the sapphic marks the novel in both content and form. I trace the arc of the sapphic through four stages in the novel's development, beginning with the erotic fictions of the late seventeenth century and moving through picaresque and domestic modes to the gothic interventions and revisionist...