Joseph Andrews as a Picaresque Novel

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akanksha Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Picaresque Novel

Vagabondage dans Le Mont Damion d’André Dhôtel

2014 ◽  
pp. 111-119
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Komandera
Keyword(s):  
Social Structures ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Picaresque Novel ◽  
Rich Family ◽  
French Author

The paper discusses the theme of wandering in the novel by French author André Dhôtel. The protagonist of Le Mont Damion, Fabien Gort, is not a typical vagrant, as he is a member of an intellectual and quite rich family. However, because of his strong absent-mindedness and strangeness, Fabien is unable to find a place in social structures. People’s hostility leads him to many wanderings and unexpected encounters which influence his existence. The novel seems to be also a generic wandering, as it possesses some features of picaresque novel, adventure novel, initiation story and fairytale fantasy.

The Costumbrista Movement in Mexico

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 290-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jefferson Rea Spell
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Freedom Of The Press ◽  
Free Press ◽  
Picaresque Novel ◽  
The Third ◽  
Mother Country ◽  
Literary Periodicals ◽  
The Press ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Educational Conditions

When the liberal journalist Fernández de Lizardi found himself barred from further discussion of political conditions, at the close of the first brief term of freedom of the press in Mexico in 1812, he turned to descriptions of manners and customs as a means of reaching his public, not with the intention of furnishing entertainment but, like Larra two decades later, with the hope of effecting reforms. Under cover of this type of material, which seemed perfectly harmless to the censors, he portrayed in his El Pensador mexicano, during 1813 and 1814, social and educational conditions as they then existed in the capital of the viceroyalty. When this avenue of expression was gradually closed to him after 1814 by the absolutist régime, Lizardi resorted to fiction; in his three realistic novels, picaresque in form but replete with costumbrista material, he accomplished for Mexico City what Mesonero Romanos futilely planned some years later to do for Madrid through the picaresque novel. Under the free press in 1820 Lizardi turned from fiction to a defense of the constitution; in El Conductor eléctrico he published many articles similar in tone and purpose to Miñano's Cartas, which appeared in Madrid in the same year; but he contributed nothing further toward the development of the satirical sketch on manners. When the more finished costumbrista article made its appearance in Mexico almost twenty years later, the revival of the form was due, not to native initiative, but to Spanish models. The Mexican literary periodicals in which these were published coincided both in content and in point of time with their Spanish prototypes; those in which fully developed costumbrista essays appear date, in the mother country from the opening, in Mexico from the close, of the third decade.

Honoring the Form: Zen Moves in Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tale

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 59-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Collins
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
The Self ◽  
Slave Narrative ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Eastern Philosophy ◽  
Charles Johnson ◽  
Graphic Narrative ◽  
Picaresque Novel ◽  
The World

AbstractIn Being and Race Charles Johnson compares a writer working with traditional forms to a martial artist who “honors the form” of his predecessors. In his 1982 novel Oxherding Tale Johnson honors the form of a number of traditional fictional genres, including the slave narrative, the picaresque novel, the philosophical novel of ideas, and Zen texts such as koans, sutras, and the twelfth-century graphic narrative, the “Oxherding Pictures.” Calling his novel a “slave narrative that serves as the vehicle for exploring Eastern philosophy,” Johnson alludes to Hindu, Taoist and Buddhist texts, as well as to Western literary and philosophical works, to dissolve the dualistic thinking at the heart of what he calls “the samsara of racial politics.” To be free of the illusory nature of “ontological dualism,” however, one must journey through stages of increasing awareness, admirably depicted in the ten illustrations of the “Oxherding Pictures.” From seeking a self (ox) that one thinks one has lost, to glimpsing the self that is first elusive and finally illusory, the seeker comes to realize that all identities are constructed and therefore temporary, including such notions as “race” and “self.” Like some biracial Everyman, Johnson’s narrator may not complete the journey by the end of the novel but he discovers much about the insubstantiality and inter-connectedness of himself in the world along the way.

Literature and the Delinquent: The Picaresque Novel in Spain and Europe, 1599-1753

Hispania ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 573
Author(s):  
P. L. Ullman ◽  
Alexander A. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Picaresque Novel
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