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The antiheroine's voice : narrative discourse and transformations of the picaresque /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Friedman, Edward H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1987.
Subjects:
Picaresque literature > History and criticism.
Women in literature.
First person narrative.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The model:
  • The wor(l)d in crisis: by way of a prologue
  • $ t Narrative acts, narrative actors: toward a model of a picaresque discourse
  • 2. Variations: The voiceless narrator: the Spanish feminine picaresque and unliberated discourse
  • $ǂg 3. Transformations: The enlightened narrator: Moll Flanders and the social imperative
  • The obliging narrator: Tristana and the rhetoric of irony
  • The marginated narrator: hasta no verte Jesús mío and the eloquence of repression
  • The mythic narrator: Tereza Batista and the Utopian alternative
  • The precocious narrator: Fanny nad discursive counterpoint
  • Reading as a person: a voice of one's own.Includes index.