Picaresque Fiction Today: The Trickster in Contemporary Anglophone and Italian Literature (Postmodern Studies, 54)
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| Management number | 233300167 | Release Date | 2026/06/27 | List Price | US$71.07 | Model Number | 233300167 | ||
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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. Read more
| ISBN10 | 900431122X |
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| ISBN13 | 978-9004311220 |
| Edition | 1st |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Dimensions | 6.1 x 0.91 x 9.25 inches |
| Item Weight | 1.25 pounds |
| Print length | 316 pages |
| Publication date | September 8, 2016 |
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