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The Picaresque: A Symposium on the Rogue's Tale

Carmen Benito-Vessels and Michael Zappala, eds. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1994. 191 pages, index.

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In this volume, diverse scholarly approaches open up new questions concerning the picaresque canon to interrogate the literature of the Spanish Golden Age as a trans-European genre. The essays investigate essential, comparative, and autobiographical features in picaresque novels across time and nations and in the context of political and intellectual ferment. They examine the impact of the rogue genre on novelistic discourse throughout the European continent.

Contents:

• Carmen Benito-Vessels and Michael Zappala, "Preface"
• Marina S. Brownlee, "Discursive Parameters of the Picaresque"
  
• Joseph V. Ricapito, "Classicity in the Spanish Golden Age: Gonzalo Pérez's Translation of La Ulyxea and the Origin of the Spanish Picaresque Novel"
  
• Bruno M. Damiani, La Lozana andaluza as Precursor to the Spanish Picaresque"
  
• Randolph D. Pope, "The Picaresque and Autobiography"
  
• Calhoun Winton, "Richard Head and Origins of the Picaresque in England"
  
• Jerry C. Beasley, "Translation and Cultural Translatio
  
• Gerald Gillespie, "From Duplicitous Delinquent to Superlative Simpleton: Simplicissimus and the German Baroque"
  
• Nancy Vogeley, "A Latin American Enlightenment Version of the Picaresque: Lizardi's Don Catrín de la Fachenda"
  
• Jerome Christensen, "Don Picaro: Lord Byron and the Reclassification of the Picaresque"
  
• Mário M. González, "The Brazilian Picaresque"