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Picaresque Fiction Today

The Trickster in Contemporary Anglophone and Italian Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Av Luigi Gussago

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-09-08
Mått155 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt610 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePostmodern Studies
Antal sidor306
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004311220

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction: A Journey around the Picaresque NovelChapter 1History through Roguish EyesForewordHistory and picaresque fictionMeaning and significance in historical fictionThe pícaro and historyDual sign irony ‘Historical’ irony Deictic markers of time and spacePolemical use of the allocutive pronoun ‘you’MetonymyMarkers of ‘being’ and ‘seeming’Otto, Baudolino, Niketas: three portraits of the EmperorThe death of two obsessionsChapter 2Alienation and Counter-CultureForewordThe picaresque counter-cultureWhat happens at the boundary?The stranger, der Fremde, l’estraneoMirror symmetry and alienationMythological and metadescriptive consciousnessHomonyms/synonymsCircumlocutionEuphemismSynecdocheActing vs improvisingRhetorical questionsOdilo’s private holocaustChapter 3Women on the Edge: Sexuality and Gender Dissent ForewordPlatonic love and the pícaraCupid, Psyche and curiosityThe constraints of natureProcreationParenthoodThe constraints of societyDemystified womenReligionSentimental lovePrimeval innocenceLiterature, ambition and transcendence in Vendita galline km 2King Lear’s pasteboard crownChapter 4Humour and the Muffled Voice of ReasonForewordVarieties of humour in the picaresqueIronyIrony in the picaresque: Benni and DoyleContradictionSelf-ironySummarySatireSelf-satireParodyThe enlightened grinThe Enlightenment watershedIndividualism, common good and general willExperience and causationThe question of happinessGod’s laughter in SaltatempoConcluding Remarks Bibliography