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2 giorni fa · Dickens's approach to the novel is influenced by various things, including the picaresque novel tradition, melodrama and the novel of sensibility. According to Ackroyd, other than these, perhaps the most important literary influence on him was derived from the fables of The Arabian Nights.
3 giorni fa · Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name refers to Gothic architecture of the European Middle Ages, which was characteristic of the settings of early Gothic novels.
2 giorni fa · Ruritanian romance: a genre of swashbuckling adventure novels, set in a fictional country, usually in Central Europe or Eastern Europe. Picaresque: a genre featuring a roguish protagonist in a series of loosely connected adventures using his wits to get by in a corrupt society.
3 giorni fa · They include Fernando de Rojas, author of La Celestina, the first great literary work of the Spanish Renaissance, and, two generations later, Mateo Alemán, who wrote a picaresque novel, Guzmán de Alfarache; Luis de León, a humanist and poet; a Dominican, Francisco de Vitoria, perhaps the greatest jurist of any country in the 16th ...
1 giorno fa · The first picaresque novels were written in Spain in the 1500s. True González Echevarría in his Yale lecture we watched in this class explains that chivalric romances resemble our today's soap operas or movies.
3 giorni fa · Imagine what might have been. (The Bus 5.21) Today’s Recommendation is Richard Fariña’s Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (1966). Published two days before his death, it is ostensibly a campus novel, though (in the words of The Guardian) referring to it as ‘perhaps the finest example of the American campus novel ever written does it a huge disservice’.
Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like The type of novel that deals with the customs of a particular social class is a _____., The type of novel about the Civil War is a _____., Most plots unfold chronologically. and more.
