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picaresque novels. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : picaresque novel; picaresque hero. From Dictionary.com.
Whilst the picaresque is certainly an excellent example of episodic narrative, it isn’t its only manifestation. From Wordnik.com. [What’s The Fuss About Episodic Fiction? « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
The picaresque is something very particular. From Wordnik.com. [What’s The Fuss About Episodic Fiction? « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
Although Baxter and Mattison don't use the word, what they are both describing is the influence on early novels in English of the "picaresque" narrative. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative Strategies] Reference
I must confess I have never heard the word 'picaresque' before. From Wordnik.com. [rediff.com] Reference
"picaresque" literature which arose in Spain and overran Europe; and which begat Le Moyen de Parvenir. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
"picaresque" (so the autobiographical form was called abroad) convention of a journey he grafted a structure based in its outline on the form of the ancient epic. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge] Reference
Then there were some of the writers of the picaresque novels. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro] Reference
"Gil Blas" and all the early picaresque novels on into the pages of. From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
Actually, there's a lot off, and he engages in a picaresque adventure. From Wordnik.com. [Mad Men : The Streak Continues] Reference
(Indeed he's recently published a very respectable, picaresque novel.). From Wordnik.com. [Susan Braudy: An Impolite Inquiry Into the Sexual Orientation of Craig Ferguson, the Well-Endowed (look he brags about it ) Late-Night Tv Host] Reference
It occurred to him suddenly that to die outside a brothel was a little picaresque. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
He bounces through picaresque adventures inspired by deluded internal visions of grandeur. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Blickstein: John Quixote] Reference
Alaska is filled with picaresque mountains and landscapes I simply don't see living in Manhattan. From Wordnik.com. [Jason Pinter: Sarah Palin and Barack Obama: Publishing Soulmates] Reference
Bryce Courtenay, who grew up in South Africa, wrote the splendid picaresque novel "The Power of One.". From Wordnik.com. [Tales Out of Africa] Reference
A sprawling picaresque, telling itself on and on until some sort of contrived happy ending became possible. From Wordnik.com. [A Rude Awakening]
Prose satire was cultivated in the picaresque novel Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter (d. 66), probably Nero's friend. From Wordnik.com. [b. Economy, Society, and Culture] Reference
There are engaging, funny scenes throughout this picaresque tale, but the travelogue grows rickety and stalls too often. From Wordnik.com. [Book World: Ron Charles reviews 'Parrot & Olivier in America,' by Peter Carey] Reference
The history of these illicit enterprises is a picaresque m lange of race and class, business acumen and organized crime. From Wordnik.com. [Gambling Days In Harlem] Reference
These various picaresque episodes offer a succession of adventures and battles also found in most of the Arthurian texts. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloody Crown of Conan]
The book is a harmless picaresque, a geste of innocent rogue errantry; its place is with Lavengro and The Cloister and the. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of the Soil] Reference
It was a picaresque investigation into the Nazi spirit, based on many of my own experiences with those unfortunate people. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
His stories are often of the picaresque type; a name given to a kind of story in which the hero is an adventurer, sometimes a rogue. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Sabatini does a neat job of explaining the complex underpinnings of the revolution without overwhelming his hero's picaresque story. From Wordnik.com. [Sabatini's Perfect Hero] Reference
Louisiana makes a lot more sense if you read the beloved picaresque "A Confederacy of Dunces" as an exercise in literary naturalism. From Wordnik.com. [Bayou Bobby] Reference
Moreover, Dickens often follows the eighteenth-century picaresque habit of tracing the histories of his heroes from birth to marriage. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
For ten years Thackeray's production was mainly in the line of satirical humorous and picaresque fiction, none of it of the first rank. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
The movie's main appeal is its special comic flavor -- a zesty fusion of picaresque adventure, absurdist whimsy and Chaplinesque grace. From Wordnik.com. [In 'Burn,' Coens] Reference
In the same year, Mateo Alemán (15471610) published the second part of Guzmán de Alfarache, a picaresque novel with a moral for each adventure. From Wordnik.com. [1640-59] Reference
Babbitt admired for his picaresque speculative building, and hated for his social position, for being present at the smartest dances on Royal Ridge. From Wordnik.com. [Babbit] Reference
Defoe wrote his novel as a picaresque, which meant cramming more outlandish plot onto a page than you get in several episodes of "" Melrose Place. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Our Bodice, Ourselves] Reference
The result is literature, a charmingly picaresque, if over-indulgent, tale of a man whose job description was first, last and always Disturber of the Peace. From Wordnik.com. [A Chicago-Style Peace Disturber] Reference
It was as though he was endowed with a picaresque philosophy of life which enabled him to understand and endure everything with an almost mischievous smile. From Wordnik.com. [Horn : Green]
The classic picaresque story of an orphaned Irish ragamuffin who grows up and survives on India's streets by blending in like a local during the 19th-century British Raj. From Wordnik.com. [What You Need to Read] Reference
And there is an earnest spirituality that propels Lafcadia on his picaresque journey from a literal valley of death to the snow-cleansed peaks of his native Himalayan village. From Wordnik.com. [Desert Samurai] Reference
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