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Picaresque Fiction Today - The Trickster in Contemporary Anglophone and Italian Literature (Hardcover)
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Picaresque Fiction Today - The Trickster in Contemporary Anglophone and Italian Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Postmodern Studies, 54
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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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