Similar words: picturesque, burlesque, arabesque, grotesque, kafkaesque, vice squad, romanesque, grotesquely. Meaning: [‚pɪkə'resk] adj. involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction.
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1. What followed was an extraordinary, picaresque journey.
2. This mildly picaresque novel recounts a boy's flight from prep school to an eventful weekend in New York.
3. The picaresque literature of the period is also very preoccupied with food and drink.
4. Picaresque movies often feel longer than they are.
5. It certainly has the qualities of a picaresque fiction.
6. 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.
7. The picaresque novel originated in Spain in the middle of the fifteenth century.
8. Since the 16th century Spanish picaresque novel Lazaraillo de Tormes Start, has been 400 years of history.
9. By turns picaresque and ironic, it's a revealing portrait of Norwegian preoccupations and insecurities.
10. We are being swept away on a tide of picaresque Euromovies.
11. The department has a distinguished record in Cervantes studies, the picaresque(sentencedict.com), and in the Golden-Age theatre.
12. In last phase of 18th century and the beginning of 19th century, the popular picaresque novels were dead silent nearly 30 years.
13. The three writers on the jury called the novel "a picaresque novel of immense charm."
14. An argument about which is"the first novel"in Europe produced the analysis of the form in Metamorphoses , picaresque novels and short story Decameron.
15. 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.
16. These vivid common characteristics are the important symbols to distinguish picaresque novel from novels of other types.
17. 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.
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18. The plot is a similar to that of a picaresque novel or a bildungsroman, for it parodies many adventure and romance cliches.
19. 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.
20. Invisible Man, writen by American black writer Ralph Ellison, is a typical picaresque novel.
21. Often enough the destination didn't matter to a hitcher embarked on a personal picaresque.
22. Although her work is nonfiction and features a female protagonist, it is still firmly planted in the picaresque tradition.
23. 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.
24. 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.
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.
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