Picaresque fiction today : the trickster in contemporary Anglophone and Italian literature /

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 b...

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Main Author: Gussago, Luigi (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Series:Postmodern studies ; Volume 54
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505 0 |a Picaresque Fiction Today: The Trickster in Contemporary Anglophone and Italian Literature; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A Journey around the Picaresque Novel; 1: History through Roguish Eyes; Foreword; History and Picaresque Fiction; Meaning and Significance in Historical Fiction; The Pićaro and History; Dual Sign Irony; 'Historical' Irony; Deictic Markers of Time and Space; Polemical Use of the Allocutive Pronoun 'you'; Metonymy; Markers of 'being' and 'seeming'; Otto, Baudolino, Niketas: Three Portraits of the Emperor; The Death of Two Obsessions 
505 0 |a Picaresque Fiction Today: The Trickster in Contemporary Anglophone and Italian Literature; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A Journey around the Picaresque Novel; 1: History through Roguish Eyes; Foreword; History and Picaresque Fiction; Meaning and Significance in Historical Fiction; The Pićaro and History; Dual Sign Irony; 'Historical' Irony; Deictic Markers of Time and Space; Polemical Use of the Allocutive Pronoun 'you'; Metonymy; Markers of 'being' and 'seeming'; Otto, Baudolino, Niketas: Three Portraits of the Emperor; The Death of Two Obsessions 
505 8 |a 2: Alienation and Counter-cultureForeword; The Picaresque Counter-culture; What Happens at the Boundary?; The Stranger, der Fremde, l'estraneo; Mirror Symmetry and Alienation; Mythological and Metadescriptive Consciousness; Homonyms/Synonyms; Circumlocution; Euphemism; Synecdoche; Acting vs Improvising; Rhetorical Questions; Odilo's Private Holocaust; 3: Women on the Edge: Sexuality and Gender Dissent; Foreword; Platonic Love and the Pićara; Cupid, Psyche and Curiosity; The Constraints of Nature; Procreation; Parenthood; The Constraints of Society; Demystified Women; Religion 
505 8 |a 2: Alienation and Counter-cultureForeword; The Picaresque Counter-culture; What Happens at the Boundary?; The Stranger, der Fremde, l'estraneo; Mirror Symmetry and Alienation; Mythological and Metadescriptive Consciousness; Homonyms/Synonyms; Circumlocution; Euphemism; Synecdoche; Acting vs Improvising; Rhetorical Questions; Odilo's Private Holocaust; 3: Women on the Edge: Sexuality and Gender Dissent; Foreword; Platonic Love and the Pićara; Cupid, Psyche and Curiosity; The Constraints of Nature; Procreation; Parenthood; The Constraints of Society; Demystified Women; Religion 
505 8 |a Sentimental LovePrimeval Innocence; Literature, Ambition and Transcendence in Vendita Galline km 2; King Lear's Pasteboard Crown; 4: Humour and the Muffled Voice of Reason; Foreword; Varieties of Humour in the Picaresque; Irony; Irony in the Picaresque: Benni and Doyle; Contradiction; Self-irony; Summary; Satire; Self-satire; Parody; The Enlightened Grin; The Enlightenment Watershed; Individualism, Common Good and General Will; Experience and Causation; The Question of Happiness; God's Laughter in Saltatempo; Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Index 
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