... picaresque novel." . . Which it Isn't. A picaresque novel Is one 'pertaining to picaroons or rogues; said of a style of literature dealing, from bcnjnd the ba]es of ootton> with rogues, popular In Spain In the 17th century" . . . and a ...
... picaresque novel." . . . Which It Isn't. A picaresque novel Is one "pertaining to picaroons or rogues; snld of n style of literature dealing with rogues, popular In Spain In tho 17th century1' . . . nnd a picaresque novel Is one thnt ...
... picaresque novel. Mr. Allen, a colorful poet, a war dlnrlst. the definite btngrlipher of Poe, hns covered himself with glory in this form snd he hns ndded n glory to American literature in a field where It weak. Just what hat his rank ...
... picaresque novel" . . .Which it isn't. A picaresque novel is one "pertaining to picaroons or rogues; said of a style of literature dealing with rogues, popular in Spain In the 17th century" . . . and a picaresque novel is one that has a ...
ONK OF THK EARLIEST form?? of fiction was 1he picaresque novel. The term is de-. rived from the Spanish "picaro," meaning. roeuo. The picaresque novel has the sim-l plest of plot forms, bring merely a loosely of adventures which befall ...
... picaresque novel. "A picaresque novel." he says, "Is one 'pertaining to picaroons or rogues, said of a style of literature dealing with rogues, popular in Spain in the 17th century,' and a picaresque novel Is one that has n rogue for a ...
... picaresque novel, or the novel of movement, If you prefer the publisher's own phrase. It is not a true picaresque novel, for Mr. Household goes too deeply Into motives, the setting and so forth. But that Is as close to a classification ...
... picaresque novel where so much of the action takes place in inns. And. of course, one of the principal elements of the picaresque novel. is the fact that the hero gelt around a lot and stumbles into one adventure after another, THE ...
Gump succeeds as picaresque novel. FORREST GUMP. By Winston Groom. Doubleday. 228 Pages. $14.95. Forrest Gump, the hero of this picaresque novel by Winston Groom, is, by his own description, an idiot. But, as he is quick to observe ...
... picaresque novel is neither to overthrow o«-«»-.iV4.* social mores *».»>_i J. «^u i* nor -^ *. to *\J destroy -*~*r\r \. i. v j its - — — heroes but to probe the vulnerable points :_^._ of _* both, v-^t. and, i ultimately, ..1*: _* ...