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| | PICARESQUE NOVEL - LoveToKnow Article on PICARESQUE NOVEL |
 | | Broadsides relating the stor~ of this picaresque amazon were circulated during her lifetime and the details of her adventures arrested the attention of D Quincey, who would seem to have read them in a Spanisl original which has been admirably translated since then by th French poet Jos Maria de Heredia. | | | The Roman bourgeois (1666) of Antoine Furetire is generally described as a picaresque novel, but this involves a new defln.ition of the adjective; the Roman bourgeois includes some portraits and more satire which seem suggested by picaresque reading, but it is concerned with the foibles of the middle class rather than. | | | This special form of the roman daventures may be defined as the prose autobiography of a real or fictitious personage who describes his experiences as a social parasite, and who satirizes the society which he has exploited. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PI/PICARESQUE_NOVEL.htm
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| | Picaresque novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Lazarillo de Tormes, published anonymously in Antwerp and Spain in 1554 is variously considered either the first picaresque novel or an antecedent to the genre. | | | In England, the body of Tobias Smollett's work, and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders (1722) are considered picaresque, but they lack of the sense of religious redemption of delinquency that was very important in Spanish and German novels. | | | The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, written in Florence beginning in 1558, also has much in common with the picaresque. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picaresque_novel
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| | picaresque - definition of picaresque by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | This was the famous picaresque novel, 'Lazarillo de Tormes,' by Hurtado de Mendoza, whose name then so familiarized itself to my fondness that now as I write it I feel as if it were that of an old personal friend whom I had known in the flesh. | | | He must have acquired experiences which would form abundant material for a picaresque novel of modern Paris, but he remained aloof, and judging from his conversation there was nothing in those years that had made a particular impression on him. | | | Of or relating to a genre of usually satiric prose fiction originating in Spain and depicting in realistic, often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social degree living by his or her wits in a corrupt society. |
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/picaresque
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| | Smollett helped popularize the Spanish picaresque with his translation of Gil Bias (1749) and openly mo delled his own Roderick Random (1748) on Le Sage\rquote s novel (}{\f1\fs22\lang1033\langfe1055\cgrid0\langnp1033\insrsid3342968 CHANDLER}{\f1\fs22\lang1033\langfe1055\cgrid0\langnp1033\insrsid5642828 1958:21).}{ \f1\fs22\lang1033\langfe1055\cgrid0\langnp1033\insrsid8530911 \par }{\f1\fs22\lang1033\langfe1055\cgrid0\langnp1033\insrsid5642828 For Smollett, the picaresque form offered the opportunity to expose a noble hero to the corrupt influences of the world. | | | In a sense, the picaresque novel in general is a \'93literature of learning and experience\'94 (}{ \f1\fs22\lang1033\langfe1055\cgrid0\langnp1033\insrsid3342968 ALTER}{\f1\fs22\lang1033\langfe1055\cgrid0\langnp1033\insrsid5642828 1964:7). | | | As Frohock has said in his essay, \'93 the disparities between the sensibilities and moral premises of various epoches did not seem to be taken into account\'94 (1969: 64). |
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http://www.kho.edu.tr/yayinlar/bilimdergisi/doc/2002-2/8_bilder.doc
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| | Theatricality in the Picaresque of Cervantes, by Helen H. Reed |
| | Cervantes' indirect or implied commentary on the psychology of the picaresque author and the raison d'être of his fiction are further instances of his metapicaresque perspective —of the evaluative or self-conscious dimensions ever present in Cervantes' picaresque. | | | Cervantes' picaresque texts offer commentary on the nature of authors, readers, and protagonists. | | | Cervantes' pícaros imitate their predecessors, their picaresque desires mediated by previous texts. |
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http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~cervantes/csa/articf87/reedhh.htm
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| | Cervantes De/Re-Constructs the Picaresque, by Peter n. Dunn |
| | The second sees himself justified by Christ, in whom he finally recognizes the giver of form to his life; his discourse is therefore self-recognition in the other. | | | I do not believe Cervantes could have seen those works which have come to be called picaresque in such terms, even if we leave aside the limited conception of genre that was part of the legacy of classical poetics. | | | If it is a parody of fiction, then, it is so by virtue of that fiction's search for a kind of mimetic truth to life which is excluded by the well rounded story, the geometrical plots and climactic endings of romance. |
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http://www.h-net.org/~cervantes/csa/articf82/dunn.htm
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| | The Reading Experience: One Thing After Another |
| | The development of drama was taking place before the prose story-tellers could even write, and it is surely reasonable to think that the early writers of prose placed themselves in the dramatic tradition, especially when you think of someone like Aphra Behn, who was a master playwright before she turned to writing prose. | | | 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. | | | This little book review is interesting in that it covers "metahistorical romance", which definitely incorporates the picaresque. |
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http://noggs.typepad.com/the_reading_experience/2004/05/in_the_maysumme.html
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| | Search Results for picaresque - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | in the literature of ancient Greece and Rome, a brief erotic or picaresque tale of romantic adventure. | | | This type of tale was first written or collected by Aristides of Miletus (c. | | | in German literature, a form of the picaresque novel. |
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http://www.britannica.com/search?query=picaresque&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT
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| | Decemberists: Picaresque Aversion.com Review |
| | Sure, he’s a storyteller, or in the case of “From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea),” a haiku-writer, but he leads The Decemberists through such thrilling chamber pop numbers, it’s silly to keep dwelling on his aborted literary dreams. | | | With more lovable, damaged and truly bizarre characters than the worst John Irving novel you’ve ever read, it’s tempting to peg Picaresque as a collection of Meloy’s short stories. | | | It wraps up with a somber number that’s a tale of lovers drowning in each others arms — literally, as in sucking water. |
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http://www.aversion.com/bands/reviews.cfm?f_id=1962
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| | This describes accurately the adventures of a new type of the new genre, a\par now type of hero who was searching for a foothold in true life adventures rather than in\par fantastic and supernatural ones about unbelievable creatures and chivalric knights. | | | But Gil Blas\par was able, because of the development in thought throughout the years intervening between the two\par books to achieve the "new kind of freely moving hero" described by Cervantes as the hero of the\par new genre. | | | This is one of the important differences and mill be discussed later in the\par section on differences. |
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http://members.fortunecity.com/jonhays/ethesis.htm
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| | The Picaresque: A Symposium on the Rogue's Tale | | | In this volume, diverse scholarly approaches open up new questions concerning the picaresque canon to interrogate the picaresque literature of the Spanish Golden Age as a trans-European genre. | | | This book can be obtained through University of Delaware Press by selecting here or Amazon.com by selecting here |
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http://www.crbs.umd.edu/textsite/tpublications/pubs/picaresque.html
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| | Maiorino: The Picaresque |
| | Brings the insights of contemporary literary and cultural theory to the study of the picaresque. | | | A landmark work, The Picaresque is the first book to incorporate poststructuralist theory into a comprehensive treatment of such tales written during the Spanish Golden Age. | | | Wide-ranging in topic and diverse in points of view, The Picaresque is an illuminating consideration of this fascinating genre. |
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http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/M/maiorino_picaresque.html
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| | Picaresque and Star Press are dedicated to the publication of meritorious works. | | | Picaresque and Star Press are adamantly unwilling to abandon the spirit and guts of the word. | | | I¹ve dug plenty of things in my life |
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http://www.xp12.com/Picaresque
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| | Narrative as Picaresque |
| | Another characteristic of a picaresque novel is that the central character experiences a series of adventures and/or misfortunes through his life. | | | Although it seems as if Olaudah becomes more and more like what society wants him to be, it is only bringing Olaudah closer to freedom, in his eyes. | | | This is a characteristic of a picaresque novel. |
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http://pigseye.kennesaw.edu/~asaran/Picaresque.htm
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| | Lazarillo De Tormes and the Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels (Penguin Classics) |
| | Lazarillo De Tormes and the Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels (Penguin Classics) Review: I would advise anyone who would accidentally fall upon this book to pick it up or buy it. | | | Literary historians (some of them, anyway) tell us that these works mark the transition from pamphlet and chapbook to the protonovel, picked up by Cervantes, later by the French & English novelists. | | | Please, if you get the chance, read this book. |
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| | American picaresque The San Diego Union-Tribune |
| | Questions of morality and decency fall by the wayside in a rollicking, outrageous odyssey in search of a man, then in search of a woman, then a woman disguised as a man as the tracker becomes the tracked. | | | Falling unwarily into traps but cleverly negotiating her way out of them, Famke flees from one tight spot to another while getting sicker and sicker until, lo and behold, a clue as to the artist's whereabouts lands her in a sanatorium for consumption just when she's about to expire. | | | The other half is picaresque novel, in which the picaroon, one Ursula, also known as Famke Sommerfugl, Fanny Summerfield and Ophelia (multiple names and disguises are necessary in such apicaresque tale), is ousted by her Danish convent orphanage only to fall into the unseemly occupation of nude model. |
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050515/news_lz1v15breath.html
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| | The Decemberists: Picaresque |
| | We have "The Bagman's Gambit," the story of a man in love with a Communist spy. | | | The tales are all so wonderfully sweeping, creative, and dare I say picaresque? | | | My favorite part of the album is that it plays like a book of short stories. |
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http://www.punkunited.com/showreview.php?id=256
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| | A picaresque tale (III) - Jun. 22, 2004 |
| | A Picaresque tale (I) Eyewitness II Eyewitness report | | | A picaresque tale (III) - Jun. 22, 2004 | | | DURING MY conversations with Don Ambrosio Rianzares, I deduced that he was completely discouraged with the state of things and was afraid of the consequences that prevailed from the beginning, namely, that the lack of a formal agreement with the Americans would lead, sooner or later, to war. |
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http://www.inq7.net/opi/2004/jun/22/opi_blharper-1.htm
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| | Glorious Noise Music Reviews: The Decemberists - Picaresque |
| | Each track is more decorated, giving the songs a genuinely detailed, vivid imagery—the ominous drudge that pounds the background of "From My Own True Love" when Meloy mentions his "rain-swept town," conjuring a horizon filling with storm clouds, for example. | | | The surge of emotion that gets carried in the tide with the rebellious "No / You will not catch me" makes the wait through the verse well worth it. | | | Picaresque, like any great collection of short stories, confronts a cadre of times and places and captures the sound of each accordingly. |
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http://www.gloriousnoise.com/reviews/001583_decemberists.php
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| | Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Picaresque |
| | It's way funnier than anything They Might Be Giants have come up with & the kids actually seem to like The Decemberists more, too because, like Lemony Snicket, they don't condescend in the name of humor and wit. | | | No-hips, no-butt himself was up on stage, shirtless, prancing and jumping about & all I had the wherewithal to think was "What the Hell is holding his pants up?" | | | Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Picaresque |
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http://randomwalks.com/drublood/archives/022073.html
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| | The Evil Monkey in Chris' Closet : THOSE PICARESQUE DECEMBERISTS PT. 2 (UPDATE!) |
| | Of or relating to a genre of usually satiric prose fiction originating in Spain and depicting in realistic, often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social degree living by his or her wits in a corrupt society. | | | The Evil Monkey in Chris' Closet : THOSE PICARESQUE DECEMBERISTS PT. | | | involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction; "picaresque novels"; "waifs of the picaresque tradition"; "a picaresque hero" |
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http://madmojo.blogs.com/madmojo/2004/12/those_picaresqu_1.html
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| | Blogcritics.org: The Decemberists - Picaresque |
| | Picaresque’s second epic (clocking in at close to nine minutes), and the better one, the song tells the tale exactly what the title says. | | | But it's not representative of The Decemberists or the Picaresque album. | | | A potentially clichéd tale of love set in Britain’s class structure, Meloy imbues it with terse lyrics and his signature Gothic gloom. |
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/03/21/145744.php
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| | The Decemberists: Picaresque [2005] Shaking Through.net: Music: Review |
| | Certainly there’s a picaresque or roguish quality to many of the characters and elaborately exaggerated situations presented here, but that only tells part of the tale. | | | Picaresque is a misleading title for the 11-track collection comprising The Decemberists' latest foray into the story-song tradition. | | | It was a way of describing what was happening while making it entertaining at the same time, a cathartic wringing out of the profound grief that darkened the doorstep of so many, be it due to disease, poverty, heartbreak or other ill fortune. |
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http://www.shakingthrough.net/music/reviews/2005/decemberists_picaresque_2005.html
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| | Huckleberry Finn Summary by Mark Twain |
| | However, he shoots a man dead, and this makes Huck sick. | | | Picaresque is a term commonly used to describe this book. | | | Picaresque 6: This is another example of Huck and nature existing together. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Picaresque Novel |
| | Originally entitled The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, this comic epic by English author Henry Fielding became an instant success upon... | | | Picaresque Novel, full-length fictional work, often satirical in nature, in which the principal character is cynical and amoral (Novel). | | | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Picaresque Novel |
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| | Español 320 Semana 3 |
| | Many authors overburden their particular versions of the picaresque with moral commentary, social satire, a burlesque treatment, and other forms of autobiography. | | | Also germane to this view of the picaresque is a self-conscious quality. | | | The author’s frame of reference as he composes his text is derived from other picaresque narrations, though he may reject some conventions and embrace others. |
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| | The Decemberists - Picaresque |
| | In the 19th Century Meloy would have made his fortune as a man of letters or diarist. | | | Picaresque (word score 23) is the band's third LP. | | | I much prefer a little wit and thought to the moon in June school of lyric writing that seems so prevalent at present. |
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| | Paste Magazine :: Review :: The Decemberists - Picaresque :: Kill Rock Stars (Page 1) |
| | Meloy’s songs once depicted an international history of stevedores and legionnaires without much rhyme or reason, but on Picaresque he zeroes in on characters—usually those struggling in the throes of concealed, unrequited or otherwise ill-fated love—before shifting his focus to setting. | | | Picaresque is the consummate Decemberists album title: It means “pertaining to rogues or rascals,” a propensity of Colin Meloy’s loquacious, theatrical pop narratives (see the nine-minute klezmer epic “The Mariner’s Revenge Song” for a sterling example). | | | Meloy’s melodies no longer meander; they unspool in taut lines, and his lyrical borders are more tightly cropped than ever before. |
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http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article?article_id=1622
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| | The Decemberists: Picaresque - PopMatters Music Review |
| | The tunes take the listener on a time-shifting, stream-of-consciousness expedition into the imagination, peopled by infant monarchs, suicidal lovers, vengeful sailors, military wives and boy ghosts. | | | In literature, the term picaresque refers to a type of novel in which a likeable rogue goes on a long journey, meets colorful people and shamelessly engages in a series of dubious escapades. | | | As with classic picaresque tales, the art and purpose lie not with the narrative's resolution but in the trip itself. |
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http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/d/decemberists-picaresque.shtml
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| | Buy Picaresque |
| | Worn themes like class-inappropriate romance or filial revenge aren't exactly made new, but believable characters and sticky melodies distinguish them. | | | The album concludes with the ironic story of love, betrayal, death and revenge "Mariner's Revenge Song," and the all too brief "Of Angels and Angles," a solo Meloy ballad celebrating his holy trinity | | | While Picaresque like its predecessor's "Her Majesty" has the same pension for seafaring lore and mythology, it sails straight into this century, making this the group's most accessible and upbeat album to date. |
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| | Amazon.com: Music: Picaresque |
| | It's like the drum of oars in water or the bodice-ripping cover of a Romance novel about lust on the high seas!! | | | The obscure word "Picaresque" is an accurate title for the third full-length album by the Decemberists. | | | "Picaresque" is perhaps the most perfect Decemeberists' album to date. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007M22S4?v=glance
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| | PICARESQUE - Online Information article about PICARESQUE |
| | Cervantes undoubtedly owed much to his predecessors, notably to the few picaresque romancers who came before him, but he considerably enlarged the See also: | | | The other is Estebanez Calderon, who in his Escenas andaluzas sought to revive the manner of the satirical and picaresque writers of the 17th century; in a uselessly archaic language of his own, tesselated with fragments taken from Cervantes, Quevedo and others, he has delineated with a somewhat artificial See also: | | | What may be called the liteerature d'agrement did not recover much lost ground; it would seem as if the vein had been exhausted. |
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http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/PER_PIG/PICARESQUE.html
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| | Two Spanish Picaresque Novels |
| | The social conditions of Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries bred the picaresque novel, which replaces the romantic hero with a rascally figure living by his wits. | | | Subjects > Fiction Themes > Literary Genres & Types of Novels > picaresque | | | The victims of hurricane Katrina need your help. |
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| | No Ripcord Album Review - The Decemberists - "Picaresque" |
| | Are these the same guys that ran through Billy Liar with more jaunt than jive? | | | Because instead of taking some of their weaker yet still interesting ideas and melding them into a greater whole, here, as on their other albums, they get fleshed out to song length. | | | If Meloy can find a way to consistently relate his nautical narratives to universal, present day concerns, the band will churn out classics like the sea swallows ships. |
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http://www.noripcord.com/reviews/D/decemberistsalbum3.html
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| | The Picaresque Revenge movie,trailer,review,pics,pictures,poster,news,DVD at The Z Review |
| | The Picaresque Revenge movie,trailer,review,pics,pictures,poster,news,DVD at The Z Review | | | Desiring to target those he believes put him behind bars and to re-obtain his $360,000 pension, the man pulls a series of brilliant crimes and ultimately gets his revenge. | | | More News on The Picaresque Revenge as we get it! |
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http://www.thezreview.co.uk/comingsoon/p/picaresquerevenge.shtm
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| | Greenwood Publishing Group I1 |
| | The first third of the book deals with a consideration of the picaresque as a genre, the role of the picaresque in literary scholarship, the value of a modal approach, and the nature of picaresque narrative. | | | Picaresque fiction, according to Wicks, is neither a historical episode in the development of the novel nor merely a phenomenon in the social and literary history of Spain, although both are important manifestations of this essential narrative form. | | | Beginning with a definition and discussion of the basic picaresque narrative structure and theme, Part I considers the origins and development of a specific type of picaresque narrative in sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain--the picaresque novel. |
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| | Cellini, Benvenuto on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Cellini tells of his escapades with the frankness and consummate egoism characteristic of the Renaissance man. He was born in Florence, the son of a musician; he studied music until his 15th year, when he was apprenticed to a goldsmith. | | | His remarkable autobiography (written 1558-62), which reads like a picaresque novel, is one of the most important documents of the 16th cent. |
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| | Defoe, Daniel - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about Defoe, Daniel |
| | Two excellent examples of his semihistorical recreations are the picaresque adventure Moll Flanders (1722), the story of a London prostitute and thief, and an account of the 1665 great plague in London entitled A Journal of the Plague Year (1722). |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Defoe,+Daniel
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| | The Decemberists: Picaresque (2005): Reviews |
| | Where 2003's Her Majesty the Decemberists unfurled tales of royalty, and debut Castaways and Cutouts talked of the sea, Picaresque drafts a whole new cast of characters just as colorful. | | | Picaresque is more than an indie-pop album, it's a collection of eleven lavishly arranged acts rife with the whiff of greasepaint and the roar of an adoring crowd, which you should be a part of. | | | "Picaresque" is by far the Decemberists' best work to date. |
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http://www2.metacritic.com/music/artists/decemberists/picaresque
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| | This text may be freely shared among individuals, but it may not be republished in any medium without express written consent from the author and advance notification of the editors. | | | [13] The picaresque adventure which forces Pee-Wee into heroic stature ends with his re-integration into ordinary life. | | | While searching for his lost vehicle, he discovers his true place in the world through adventures with many new friends. |
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http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.192/pop-cult.192
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| | Picaresque Continuities |
| | This book however, integrates the picaresque into a broader historical trajectory that encompasses Don Quixote and Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, works typically viewed as first examples of the modern and educational novel, respectively. | | | By placing texts such as Lazarillo de Tormes, Guzmán de Alfarache and Estebanillo González in their social and imperial contexts, the Spanish picaresque novel is restored to a central position in the history of reading and literature, bridging the two-century gap between Cervantes and Goethe. | | | These were very popular works in their day, not only, it is argued, because of their wit, but because they addressed issues that affected the daily lives of readers, to whom they advocated new ethical codes in rapidly changing worlds. |
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| | Splendid Magazine reviews The Decemberists: Picaresque |
| | Any album named Picaresque must be, of necessity, a collection of tales, and this one leads us merrily through an Edward Gorey-ish assortment of lovelorn peddlers, noir-film detectives, teenage drifters and seafarers bent on revenge. | | | There's no way to tell if Picaresque is as good as Castaways and Cutouts right now. | | | That album revealed itself only after months of running fingers over its multi-hued surfaces, fitting shards of lyrics into running commentaries on life, playing it for friends and judging them by their response, dredging fragments of melody out of daydreams and learning to love slowly. |
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http://www.splendidezine.com/review.html?reviewid=11121523531000784
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| | 'Picaresque' is about big words, fun & pirates - The Statesman - Features |
| | Producer Chris Walla, better known for his work with Death Cab for Cutie, hones the band's vision and ensures that "Picaresque" never falls into the "more twee than thee" mode that contemporaries like Belle and Sebastian often suffer from. | | | From the opening line, "Here she comes in her palanquin, on the back of an elephant," to its closer, "There are angels in your angles," both a dictionary and mind prepared for metaphor come highly recommended. | | | If you take issue with pirates and star-crossed lovers forced to suicide, the new Decemberists' album may not be for you. |
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http://www.utahstatesman.com/news/2005/03/30/Features/picaresque.Is.About.Big.Words.Fun.Pirates-906753.shtml
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| | CD Review: 'Picaresque' reaches new heights for Portland band - The Gamecock - The Mix |
| | Never resting on its laurels, the band saw the release in 2004 of "The Tain EP," which was based on an 8th century epic Irish poem, and had musical nods to epic '70s bands like Deep Purple. | | | Recorded in a converted church with the help of Death Cab for Cutie guitarist and producer Chris Walla, whom the band worked with on "The Tain," the album moves with each literary flourish to the denouement of each mini-story of love, loss and death as the band gives decibel weight to the song's intended emotion. | | | While these previous efforts have showcased Meloy's promise, culled from his degree in creative writing, "Picaresque" is in many ways the most complete and even work the band has produced to date. |
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http://www.dailygamecock.com/news/2005/03/21/TheMix/Cd.Review.picaresque.Reaches.New.Heights.For.Portland.Band-898311.shtml
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| | HON H203 0012 Picaresque and Quixotic |
| | The quixotic, instead, refers to that aspect of human nature which is moved by the understanding of the importance of values which transcend need and add to the quality of life and purpose of civilized life. | | | The Picaresque describes the life of need, and it portrays characters who struggle in market places and roadsides to survive and to achieve economic stability, whatever it takes. | | | The picaresque deals with necessity and the quixotic deals with choice; both are indispensable to make life human and to enrich our appreciation of the world. |
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http://www.indiana.edu/~deanfac/blspr02/hon/hon_h203_0012.html
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