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, 1986 Souiller Didier. Le récit picaresque. In: Littératures 14, printemps 1986. pp.
Didier Souiller, Souiller, Didier
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Valuing Literature: The Picaresque and the Writing Life in Mexico
Latin American Research Review, 2020 This article contends that Mexican writers have drawn on the picaresque to ponder what they regard as the precariousness of intellectual labor in Mexico.
Jorge Téllez
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Die Gegenwärtigkeit des Picaros am Beispiel von Thomas Brussigs Wie es leuchtet
Recherches Germaniques, 2023 This study addresses the configuration and functions of the picaresque figure in the Novel Wie es leuchtet (2004) by Thomas Brussig. This opus magnum depicts its social and choral heterogeneity, using one element to make the numerous pieces of this ...
Miriam Llamas Ubieto
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Orbis Litterarum, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 73-85, April 2020., 2020 When characters travel 'at the speed of plot', they need to arrive at the conclusion of the story by the time the narrative comes to its end on the page. This article develops the popular notion of 'plot speed' into a conceptual contribution to the study of time in narrative.
Karin Kukkonen
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La fuite en avant de Catalina de Erauso, la nonne militaire
Cahiers d’Études Romanes, 2010 L’Histoire de la Nonne Enseigne Catalina de Erauso [1585-1652], écrite par elle-même, est marquée par la fuite. À quinze ans, elle s’enfuit de son couvent de Saint-Sébastien.
Benito Pelegrín
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Muddled Origins in Picaresque Literature: The Foreshadowing of Chaotic Lives
Interlitteraria, 2014 Picaresque literature is known for several specific traits: 1) firstperson narration and the protagonist’s struggle for survival and a better life; 2) the chaotic childhood, outsiderdom, and low social class of the main character; 3) frequent role ...
Terri Schroth, Bryant Smith
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A Hypocrite Protagonist: Iranian Picaroon in the Alleys of Baghdad Picaresque Features of Mashala-Khan in Harun al-Rashid’s Court by Iraj Pezeshkzad [PDF]
Literary ArtsThough Mashala-Khan in Harun al-Rashid’s Court is a known novel in contemporary satirical Persian literature, its picaresque features have never been systematically studied.
Hojjat Allah Omidali, Masood Keshavarz
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Fury and the antitheatrical prejudice: The violent power of play‐acting in the Cervantine picaresque
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 81, Issue 1, Page 11-26, February 2026.Abstract The article studies a cross‐generic relation between theatrical performance and the outbreak of violence in picaresque contexts across works by Miguel de Cervantes. It then proceeds to contextualize these persistent incidents within the philosophical history of antitheatricality.
Rasmus Vangshardt
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Picaresque Comedy and Its Discontents [PDF]
, 2012 Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2012The emergence of Lazarillo de Tormes in sixteenth-century Spain represents not only the birth of the picaresque genre but also a new comic sensibility--picaresque comedy.
Maier, Maximilian
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Polysemy and roots: Deep versus shallow fetching
Mind &Language, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 472-491, November 2025.The paper argues for a model of polysemy based on the blueprint offered by Paul Pietroski whereby the meaning of a lexical item is an instruction to fetch a concept from an address. We show that the bare idea of fetching admits of a deep construal, where a concept is fetched, and a shallow construal, where the instruction merely links a lexical item to
John Collins, Tamara Dobler
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