The Picara

The Picara
Author: Anne K. Kaler
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780879725167


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Courtesan and criminal, thief and trollop, warrior and wanderer--the picara embodies the continuing archetypal pattern of a woman's autonomy. She is the sly sharpster in Defoe's heroines such as Roxana and Moll Flanders. With an ancestress like Becky Sharp, the picara evolves into Scarlett O'Hara before finding a comfortable niche as the female hero in fantasy written by women. The Picara traces the development of this character, from an autonomous woman in a harsh patriarchal society to the female hero of the modern fantasy novel.


The Picara
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: Anne K. Kaler
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Popular Press

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Courtesan and criminal, thief and trollop, warrior and wanderer--the picara embodies the continuing archetypal pattern of a woman's autonomy. She is the sly sha
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Pages: 212
Authors: David R. Castillo
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Purdue University Press

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The term anamorphosis, from the greek ana (again) and morphe (shape), designates a variety of perspective experiments that can be traced back to the artistic de
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Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-02-28 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Today, a multiplicity of feminist approaches has become an integral part of the fields of German literary and cultural studies. This comprehensive reference pro
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Pages: 341
Authors: Alexandra Ganser
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Language: en
Pages: 230
Authors: Bernhard Malkmus
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-13 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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The German Pícaro and Modernity reads the re-emergence of the picaresque narrative in twentieth-century German-language writing as an expression of modernity a