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Basic Themes in the Picaresque Novel
Basic Themes in the Picaresque Novel

Author(s): Raluca Stoica
Subject(s): Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: picaresque novel; basic themes; episodic structure; character development; Spanish picaro.

Summary/Abstract: : The focus of our paper is to reveal the most important and specific features of the picaresque novel since its birth, in Spain, until the eighteenth’s century England. The picaresque novel offers us a wide range of paths to be explored, its variety and richness making it an almost inexhaustible field of literary investigation.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 136-140
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English