The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Neopicaresque (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108431873)

Since the sixteenth century, Western literature has produced picaresque novels penned by authors across Europe, from Alem n, Cervantes, Lesage and Defoe to Cela and Mann. Contemporary authors of neopicaresque are renewing this traditional form to express twenty-first-century concerns. Notwithstanding its major contribution to literary history, as one of the founding forms of the modern novel, the picaresque remains a controversial literary category, and its definition is still much contested. The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature examines the development of the picaresque, chronologically and geographically, from its origins in sixteenth-century Spain to the neopicaresque in Europe and the United States.

Author: J. A. Garrido Ardila
ISBN-10: 1108431879
ISBN-13: 9781108431873
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/28/2017
Pages: 287
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d