02847nam 2200517 450 991079840960332120230808194748.090-04-31123-810.1163/9789004311237(CKB)3710000000828723(MiAaPQ)EBC4751120(OCoLC)958412456(nllekb)BRILL9789004311237(EXLCZ)99371000000082872320160914d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierPicaresque fiction today[e-book] the trickster in contemporary Anglophone and Italian literature /by Luigi GussagoLeiden ;Boston :Brill,[2016]1 online resource (315 pages)Postmodern Studies ;5490-04-31122-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminary Material -- Introduction: A Journey around the Picaresque Novel -- History through Roguish Eyes -- Alienation and Counter-culture -- Women on the Edge: Sexuality and Gender Dissent -- Humour and the Muffled Voice of Reason -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index.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.Postmodern Studies54.Picaresque literature, EuropeanHistory and criticismTricksters in literaturePicaresque literature, EuropeanfastTricksters in literaturefastCriticism, interpretation, etc.fastPicaresque literature, EuropeanHistory and criticism.Tricksters in literature.Picaresque literature, European.Tricksters in literature.809.3/87Gussago Luigi1520558NL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9910798409603321Picaresque fiction today3759192UNINA