Crossword clues for picaresque
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Picaresque \Pic`a*resque"\, a. [F., fr. Sp. picaro rogue.] Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1810, from Spanish picaresco "roguish," from picaro "rogue," of uncertain origin, possibly from picar "to pierce," from Vulgar Latin *piccare (see pike (n.2)). Originally in roman picaresque "rogue novel," the classic example being "Gil Blas."
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to rogues or adventurers 2 (context literature English) Characteristic of a genre of Spanish satiric novel dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero n. A picaresque novel.
WordNet
adj. involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction; "picaresque novels"; "waifs of the picaresque tradition"; "a picaresque hero"
Wikipedia
Picaresque is the third studio album from The Decemberists. It was released in 2005 on the Kill Rock Stars record label.
Picaresque may refer to:
- Picaresque novel, popular subgenre of prose fiction
- Picaresque (album), 2005 album by American rock band The Decemberists
Usage examples of "picaresque".
Brian Aldiss has astutely observed: repetitive, picaresque tales of nonstop adventure based on adolescent fantasies of constrained eroticism and unrestrained power.
But Tiresias heard these shrieks, he saw the sights unholy and ungainly and because of this he sobbed intensely as he continued his shuffling sort of shamble through a Dantean picaresque blindness of pine trees and live oaks grappling in animated splendor with his very soul.
It was not till the Spaniards borrowed the form of the novella and transplanted it to their racier soil that it began to bear character, and to fruit in the richness of their picaresque fiction.
The Picaresque novel in Spain and its counterparts, Till Eulenspiegel or Reinecke Vos in the north, told the adventures of some rascal or vagabond.
The waiters shared their pleasant mood, and served them affectionately, and were now and then invited to join in the gay talk which babbled on over dislocated aspirates, and filled the air with a sentiment of vagabond enjoyment, of the romantic freedom of violated convention, of something Gil Blas-like, almost picaresque.
Picaresque pretty obviously referring to the comic-Surrealist tradition of Bay Area avant-gardeists like Peterson & Broughton, since Peterson's Potted Psalm's mother-and- Death stuff and The Cage's cranial-imprisonment and disconnected-eyeball stuff are pretty obvious touchstones in a lot of Himself's more parodic-slapstick productions.
We talked easily, and I laid on the more gentle, picaresque side of police work: the friendly drunks, the colorful jazz musicians in their zoot suits, the lost puppies Wacky and I repatriated to their youthful owners.