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Definition of Picaresque
1. Adjective. Involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction. "A picaresque hero"
Definition of Picaresque
1. a. Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.
Definition of Picaresque
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to rogues or adventurers ¹
2. Adjective. (literature) Characteristic of a genre of Spanish satiric novel dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero ¹
3. Noun. A picaresque novel. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Picaresque
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Picaresque
Literary usage of Picaresque
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literature of Roguery by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1907)
"THE LITERATURE OF ROGUERY CHAPTER VII THE picaresque NOVEL IN THE EIGHTEENTH
CENTURY 1. Defoe j|HE eighteenth century, as the age of prose and observation, ..."
2. The Literature of Roguery by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1907)
"Though the day of direct borrowing was past, what was best in the picaresque
manner and method only now became truly effective. Fresh English renderings of ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Every convention of the picaresque novel is faithfully observed, and the incidents
arc no doubt substantially true, though Contreras, like most converts, ..."
4. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jean Jules Jusserand (1908)
"THOMAS NASH ; THE picaresque AND REALISTIC NOVEL. I. " A • AHERE is nothing beside
the goodnesse of God, J^ that preserves health so much as honest mirth, ..."
5. Romances of Roguery: An Episode in the History of the Novel by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1899)
"... FORMS OF THE picaresque NOVEL \ FROM Seneca and Martial to the Archpriest of
Hita, ... Juan Ruiz, was the first Spanish ancestor of picaresque fiction. ..."
6. Spanish Influence on English Literature by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume (1905)
"... VI THE picaresque AND PERIPATETIC NOVELS IN ENGLAND IN the last chapter the
evolution of the novel in Spain was followed, showing that the framework or ..."
7. The Literature of Roguery by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1907)
"THE LITERATURE OF ROGUERY CHAPTER VII THE picaresque NOVEL IN THE EIGHTEENTH
CENTURY 1. Defoe j|HE eighteenth century, as the age of prose and observation, ..."
8. The Literature of Roguery by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1907)
"Though the day of direct borrowing was past, what was best in the picaresque
manner and method only now became truly effective. Fresh English renderings of ..."
9. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Every convention of the picaresque novel is faithfully observed, and the incidents
arc no doubt substantially true, though Contreras, like most converts, ..."
10. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jean Jules Jusserand (1908)
"THOMAS NASH ; THE picaresque AND REALISTIC NOVEL. I. " A • AHERE is nothing beside
the goodnesse of God, J^ that preserves health so much as honest mirth, ..."
11. Romances of Roguery: An Episode in the History of the Novel by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1899)
"... FORMS OF THE picaresque NOVEL \ FROM Seneca and Martial to the Archpriest of
Hita, ... Juan Ruiz, was the first Spanish ancestor of picaresque fiction. ..."
12. Spanish Influence on English Literature by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume (1905)
"... VI THE picaresque AND PERIPATETIC NOVELS IN ENGLAND IN the last chapter the
evolution of the novel in Spain was followed, showing that the framework or ..."
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