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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Gussago, Luigi
Titre(s) : Picaresque fiction today [Texte imprimé] : the trickster in contemporary Anglophone and Italian literature / by Luigi Gussago
Publication : Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, copyright 2016
Description matérielle : viii, 305 pages ; 25 cm
Collection : Postmodern studies, ISSN 0923-0483 ; volume 54
Lien à la collection : Postmodern studies
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-297) and index
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
Sujet(s) : Roman picaresque -- 20e siècle
Escrocs et escroqueries -- Dans la littérature
Littérature comparée -- Anglaise et italienne
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789004311220. - ISBN 900431122X
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb457223123
Notice n° :
FRBNF45722312
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