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picaresque: a standalone construct

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Genre studies

an episodic narrative mode following a rogue protagonist through a chaotic, corrupt world, usually in first-person retrospect.

In genre studies, picaresque refers to an episodic narrative mode following a rogue protagonist through a chaotic, corrupt world, usually in first-person retrospect. This meaning comes from Wicks (1974) in PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America.[1]

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References

Wicks, U. (1974). The Nature of Picaresque Narrative: A Modal Approach. PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 89(2), 240-249. https://doi.org/10.2307/461446

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