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Picaresque Novel

Picaresque Novel is a literary genre characterized by a narrative structure that follows the adventures of a roguish protagonist of low social standing who drifts from place to place, often exposing social hypocrisy through episodic encounters, thereby distinguishing it from other forms of the novel through its satirical tone, moral ambiguity, and fragmented, first-person perspective.

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Picaresque

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Neoliberalism, Slow Violence, and the Environmental Picaresque

Rob Nixon · Modern fiction studies · 2009 · 90 citations

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The Picaresque Hero in European Fiction

Victorio G. Agüera, Richard Bjornson · Hispania · 1978 · 62 citations

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Rogue's Progress: Studies in the Picaresque Novel

Joseph H. Silverman, Robert Alter · Books Abroad · 1965 · 55 citations

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An Exemplary History of the Novel: The Quixotic versus the Picaresque

Richard Bjornson, Walter L. Reed · World Literature Today · 1982 · 48 citations

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Maqāmāt Literature and the Picaresque Novel

J. A. Abu-Haidar · Journal of Arabic Literature · 1974 · 45 citations

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Authors

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  1. UW
    Ulrich Wicks

    University of Maine, United States

    3 publications · 90 citations

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  2. EF
    Edward Friedman

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    3 publications · 53 citations

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  3. RB
    Richard Bjornson

    3 publications · 144 citations

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  4. JW
    J. Wall

    LabCorp (United States), United States

    2 publications · 58 citations

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  5. AA
    Alexander A. Parker

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 81 citations

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Institutions

10

  1. University of Maine

    Orono, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    43 citations

  2. University of Minnesota System

    Minneapolis, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  3. Florida State University

    Tallahassee, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

  4. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  5. Universitat Rovira i Virgili

    Tarragona, Spain

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    25 citations

  6. The Ohio State University

    Columbus, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    41 citations

  7. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    25 citations

  8. Indiana University

    Bloomington, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 6 publications · 127 citations

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  3. Hispania

    3 publications · 85 citations

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  4. World Literature Today

    WLT · 3 publications · 93 citations

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  5. The Modern Language Review

    2 publications · 34 citations

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