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Journal Article
Genre (2017) 50 (2): 267–295.
Published: 01 July 2017
... responsiveness to others are one and the same—a commitment that must be translated into worldly action and exposure. The genres of the picaresque, the quixotic, and the Joban fable will, the novels indicate, allow us to imagine that translation better than the literary traditions that emphasize ethical...
Journal Article
Genre (2002) 35 (2): 181–219.
Published: 01 June 2002
...
chestnuts of genre criticism to show its value for issues in genre theory.11
Let us consider, in capsule form, a fairly standard account of the early Eng-
lish novel. The novel's precursors are the Italian novella or "new" tale like Boc-
caccio's, the epic, medieval romance, the picaresque tale...
Journal Article
Genre (2021) 54 (2): 307–310.
Published: 01 July 2021
... game. “As the author function solidified,” Fallon writes, “the persona was reconceived in terms of self-reflexive irony, as a form of characteristically authorial metafiction” (154). It's possible to quibble with this chronology—the history of the picaresque, including the seventeenth-century craze...
Journal Article
Genre (2004) 37 (3-4): 373–394.
Published: 01 September 2004
... in 3 acts by Jacques Offenbach . Trans. White Don . Opera Rara (ORC7) : 1980 . Defoe Daniel . Moll Flanders . Intro. Aitken G. A. . London : J. M. Dent , 1930 . de Quevedo Francisco . The Swindler (El Buscón) in Two Spanish Picaresque Novels . Trans. Alpert...
Journal Article
Genre (2024) 57 (2): 113–141.
Published: 01 July 2024
... court reports, romance fiction, Newgate tales, and picaresque novels as inspirations (John 2000 ; Sullivan 2000 ; McCrea 2011 : 28–29). Yet in terms of readers’ sheer exposure in 1830s England, perhaps no cultural form was as pervasive as theatrical melodrama. Dickens knew it, too. Whether borrowing...
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Journal Article
Genre (2009) 42 (1-2): 83–111.
Published: 01 March 2009
... include the very critical discourses readers use
to unpack her texts.
Because of this reflexive incorporation, it becomes tempting to read Carter's
dense allegories as merely self-referential or parodic picaresques. Certainly the
imagery at times can appear so outrageously surreal as to seem...
Journal Article
Genre (2009) 42 (3-4): 5–20.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., or notoriously, a systematic pastiche
of eighteenth-century comic or picaresque narrative, written wall-to-wall in a
mock-eighteenth-century style. It simulates, in other words, the style and con-
ventions of popular novels contemporary with the events it narrates, as well as
poaching other popular...
Journal Article
Genre (2007) 40 (3-4): 17–58.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., and for his struggles pro-
cures a blessing. Since the story does not overtly recall its indebtedness to the
blessing story, we might almost be inclined to interpret it sequentially, as yet one
more scene in which Jacob as proto-picaresque hero falls into conflict. Much as
Huck Finn's picaresque...
Journal Article
Genre (2009) 42 (3-4): 41–60.
Published: 01 September 2009
... degree than picaresque human protagonists" (122). In the case
of Butler's parrot, the protagonist is privy to what no one ever sees: people inti-
mate with one another. While this experience at first causes him great distress,
it also eventually brings about his epiphany. The aquatic narrator...
Journal Article
Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 11–32.
Published: 01 March 2001
... (Valdivia in Cunninghame Graham, 157).9 Given such cursory refer-
ences, Valdivia's descriptions of these northern lands can be said to have been
subordinated to the lineally progressive form of the narrative which depicts the
picaresque-like movement of the hero through space and time, from one adven...
Journal Article
Genre (2005) 38 (3): 257–280.
Published: 01 September 2005
... public philosophy in the writings of
Subcommandante Marcos and his alter ego, a beetle, who pushes a ball of dung
around guerilla encampments. Announcing himself as Durito or "little hard
one," the beetle bestows sarcasm, mockery, and wisdom on his human interlocu-
tor through picaresque parables...
Journal Article
Genre (2001) 34 (3-4): 339–343.
Published: 01 September 2001
... the principals and their families as
well as the help he did not.
4th Street is less about the lives of Joan Baez, Richard and Mimi Baez Farina,
and Bob Dylan than about their relationships with each other. It is picaresque,
with the various characters traveling primarily between Greenwich Village...
Journal Article
Genre (2001) 34 (3-4): 349–353.
Published: 01 September 2001
... as
well as the help he did not.
4th Street is less about the lives of Joan Baez, Richard and Mimi Baez Farina,
and Bob Dylan than about their relationships with each other. It is picaresque,
with the various characters traveling primarily between Greenwich Village,
upstate New York...
Journal Article
Genre (2001) 34 (3-4): 344–348.
Published: 01 September 2001
.... The
book is reflective of the help he received from the principals and their families as
well as the help he did not.
4th Street is less about the lives of Joan Baez, Richard and Mimi Baez Farina,
and Bob Dylan than about their relationships with each other. It is picaresque,
with the various...
Journal Article
Genre (2001) 34 (3-4): 354–361.
Published: 01 September 2001
... as the help he did not.
4th Street is less about the lives of Joan Baez, Richard and Mimi Baez Farina,
and Bob Dylan than about their relationships with each other. It is picaresque,
with the various characters traveling primarily between Greenwich Village,
upstate New York, and California...
Journal Article
Genre (2010) 43 (1-2): 163–190.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., picaresque, and colonial
around the different kinds of spaces their characters traverse. In Moretti’s tax-
onomy, each type of novel is bound to a particular type of space and vice versa.
While his theory is generally helpful in thinking about the geographic properties
of narrative, it is necessary...
