Picaresque

At the moment, she is writing "another book, which seems to be coming as a succession of chapters that feel like stories", and which she refers to as the picaresque life story of a spiky, bold girl. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Whilst the picaresque is certainly an excellent example of episodic narrative, it isn’t its only manifestation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Daniel Green has suggested that the picaresque is a form that has nearly been lost to contemporary fiction writers, and that we might be able to broaden our sense of what is or isn't a viable story if more writers were to experiment with it. ❋ Unknown (2004)

They belonged mostly to that class of realistic fiction which is called picaresque, from the Spanish word 'picaro,' a rogue, because it began in Spain with the 'Lazarillo de Tormes' of Diego de ❋ Robert Huntington Fletcher (N/A)

A genre of literature known as the picaresque novel is generally credited as having arisen in Spain with an anonymous 16th-century work entitled "Lazarillo de Tormes." ❋ Unknown (2012)

Although Baxter and Mattison don't use the word, what they are both describing is the influence on early novels in English of the "picaresque" narrative. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These comprise a kind of picaresque tale of Jack's philandering, selfish, funny life, accompanied by such supporting fables as the Pathetic Fallacy (now going by the name "Gary") and the Queen of Fortune. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Emperor Charles V., an accomplished soldier and a learned historian -- such was the creator of the hungry rogue Lazarillo, and the founder of the "picaresque" school of fiction, or the romance of roguery, which is not yet extinct. ❋ Various (1909)

Stevenson and Kipling have proved its immense popularity, with the whole brood of detective stories and the tales of successful rascality we call "picaresque" Our most popular weekly shows the broad appeal of this class of fiction. ❋ Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1897)

Even regarded as an early attempt in the "picaresque" manner, it is abortive and only half organised. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

I must confess I have never heard the word 'picaresque' before. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is a kind of picaresque novel that follows Lillian from Russia to New York, across the continent to Seattle, and up into Alaska, heading to the Bering Strait which would take Lillian to Siberia. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In such novels as The Adventures of Roderick Random, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker -- even the names of the protagonists are appropriately Pynchonesque -- Smollett helped establish the picaresque as a narrative strategy in the early English novel, but despite Smollett's influence on, for example, Charles Dickens, both he and the kind of picaresque narrative emphasizing "randomness" and digression was superseded by the post-Flaubert novel of realism and the "well-made story." ❋ Unknown (2010)

"picaresque" (so the autobiographical form was called abroad) convention of a journey he grafted a structure based in its outline on the form of the ancient epic. ❋ G. H. Mair (1906)

"picaresque" story was pretty real but even less decent: and its French imitations (though not usually reaching the licence of the short tale, which clung to _fabliau_ ways in this respect) imitated it here also. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

"picaresque" literature which arose in Spain and overran Europe; and which begat Le Moyen de Parvenir. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

History of a Pleasure Seeker could have been disastrous; instead it's an enthralling, perfectly paced romp new life into the picaresque genre. ❋ Unknown (2011)