picaresque in English

adjective
1
of or relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero.
a rowdy, picaresque "guys being guys" movie

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1. What followed was an extraordinary, picaresque journey.

2. Picaresque movies often feel longer than they are.

3. It certainly has the qualities of a picaresque fiction.

4. We are being swept away on a tide of picaresque Euromovies.

5. The picaresque novel originated in Spain in the middle of the fifteenth century.

6. By turns picaresque and ironic, it's a revealing portrait of Norwegian preoccupations and insecurities.

7. The picaresque literature of the period is also very preoccupied with food and drink.

8. Invisible Man, writen by American black writer Ralph Ellison, is a typical picaresque novel.

9. Often enough the destination didn't matter to a hitcher embarked on a personal picaresque.

10. The three writers on the jury called the novel "a picaresque novel of immense charm."

11. The department has a distinguished record in Cervantes studies, the picaresque, and in the Golden-Age theatre.

12. 18 By turns picaresque and ironic,(www.Sentencedict.com) it's a revealing portrait of Norwegian preoccupations and insecurities.

13. These vivid common characteristics are the important symbols to distinguish picaresque novel from novels of other types.

14. This mildly picaresque novel recounts a boy's flight from prep school to an eventful weekend in New York.

15. Since the 16th century Spanish picaresque novel Lazaraillo de Tormes Start, has been 400 years of history.

16. Although her work is nonfiction and features a female protagonist, it is still firmly planted in the picaresque tradition.

17. 20 This mildly picaresque novel recounts a boy's flight from prep school to an eventful weekend in New York.

18. In last phase of 18th century and the beginning of 19th century, the popular picaresque novels were dead silent nearly 30 years.

19. The plot is a similar to that of a picaresque novel or a bildungsroman, for it parodies many adventure and romance cliches.

20. In the fourth chapter of my thesis, elaboration is on the parody of traditional literary forms including Henry Fielding's picaresque novels, traditional epic and the hero myth.

21. The two novels as examples not only reflect the essential characteristics of picaresque novels, but the innovation and development of this literary form in the specific times.

22. Hope that through this study, for more fans to open the door to interest, and the picaresque novel and the theory continue to promote the general.

23. Volunteering to drive his girl friend's son home for Thanksgiving to Chicago from his boarding school in Georgia, little does Dutch expect the picaresque adventures in store for him.

24. It went to the brink of demolition late last century after a picaresque episode involving a disputed succession, a murdered heiress and a now-jailed Ni?ois ex-lawyer.

25. The artistic characteristics of the countries to attract scholars and writers sought after ages, and create a large family of the picaresque novel, to promote the continuous development of this style.

26. Saul Bellow >An American author of fiction, essays, and drama, Saul Bellow (born 1915) >reached the first rank of contemporary fiction with his picaresque novel The >Adventures of Augie March.

27. Far from a picaresque Everyman, Saleem discovers he shares special powers with every other person born in the same hour and comes to see himself as the incarnation of India, an avatar of the nation.

28. Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world.His journey takes him far from home to towns and cities, to Bomboy and Simla, sweating as servant, factory-worker and rickshaw driver

29. Other articles where The Asiatics is discussed: Frederic Prokosch: Prokosch’s first novel, The Asiatics (1935), was the picaresque story of a young American who travels from Beirut, Lebanon, across vivid Asian landscapes to China, encountering a variety of distinctive individuals along the way; it won wide acclaim and was translated into 17 languages.