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The picaresque woman: Gender-bending...

Spaldo, Ellen Lanese.

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The picaresque woman: Gender-bending, genre-bending, and the episodic self in "Moll Flanders", "The Runagate Courage", "Mother Courage and Her Children", and "Fear of Flying" (Germany, Daniel Defoe, Erica Jong, Bertolt Brecht, Hans Jacob von Grimmelshausen).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The picaresque woman: Gender-bending, genre-bending, and the episodic self in "Moll Flanders", "The Runagate Courage", "Mother Courage and Her Children", and "Fear of Flying" (Germany, Daniel Defoe, Erica Jong, Bertolt Brecht, Hans Jacob von Grimmelshausen)./
Author:	Spaldo, Ellen Lanese.
Description:	232 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Nancy K. Miller.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-12A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3074685
ISBN:	0493947337

The picaresque woman: Gender-bending, genre-bending, and the episodic self in "Moll Flanders", "The Runagate Courage", "Mother Courage and Her Children", and "Fear of Flying" (Germany, Daniel Defoe, Erica Jong, Bertolt Brecht, Hans Jacob von Grimmelshausen).
Spaldo, Ellen Lanese.

The picaresque woman: Gender-bending, genre-bending, and the episodic self in "Moll Flanders", "The Runagate Courage", "Mother Courage and Her Children", and "Fear of Flying" (Germany, Daniel Defoe, Erica Jong, Bertolt Brecht, Hans Jacob von Grimmelshausen). - 232 p.

Adviser: Nancy K. Miller.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 2003.

This dissertation focuses on the figure of the picaresque woman as it appears in selected works from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and twentieth centuries. It posits the viability and flexibility of picaresque literature by examining the narrative strategies and energies that are engaged when picaresque elements interact with feminocentric concerns. The study explores the ways in which the picaresque shapes the construction of the feminine self and either supports or resists the assertion of a feminist stance. Questions about the feasibility of a female novel of development are raised, and the relationship of the feminine picaresque to the female <italic>Bildungsroman</italic> is discussed.

ISBN: 0493947337Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

The picaresque woman: Gender-bending, genre-bending, and the episodic self in "Moll Flanders", "The Runagate Courage", "Mother Courage and Her Children", and "Fear of Flying" (Germany, Daniel Defoe, Erica Jong, Bertolt Brecht, Hans Jacob von Grimmelshausen).
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520 $a Major twentieth-century critical statements on the picaresque reveal considerable disagreement over the picaresque canon and increasing frustration with the apparent malleability of the term <italic>picaresque</italic>. A modal approach is offered as an alternative methodology. Picaresque structure is seen as contributing to the construction of an appropriate and cohesive personality—the “episodic self”—especially when enacted in a female character.
520 $a <italic>Lazarillo de Tormes</italic> is discussed as an early model of a representative picaresque text. <italic>Moll Flanders</italic> reveals a structure of narrative retrospection within which Moll rewrites episodes of her past, thereby revising her early dreams of becoming a gentlewoman toward a new goal of adopting the role of a gentleman-tradesman and, in the process, accomplishing a “vicious” parody of the process of becoming a man. A comparison of <italic>The Runagate Courage</italic> and <italic>Mother Courage and Her Children</italic> reveals a significant emancipatory gesture (gender-bending) in the seventeenth-century work and highlights Brecht's adaptation of the picaresque mode to dramatic form (genre-bending) in his twentieth-century play. Finally, the picaresque mode in Jong's Isadora Wing trilogy creates a vital and attractive pícara but produces a narrative that severely limits the protagonist's capacity for personal autonomy.
520 $a This dissertation suggests that we are turning, in cyclical fashion, to a sense of the world as a postmodern picaresque in which development is undefined, genre is deconstructed, and gender is flexible. The picara opportunistically takes over that space that has been contended for so long—the junction of gender, genre, and structure—and flourishes there.
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