EN 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Picaresque Novel, Unreliable Narrator
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En2120 lecture #9: gentlemen prefer blondes" lecture notes. Plot: almost always episodic and ironic/satiric or comic, case-effect of the picaro/picaras impoverished, dysfunctional, outcast childhood (often, but not in gpb, story follows events over several or many years (usually, but not in gpb) Setting: almost always contemporary and an urban setting, usually many settings. Theme: class, economics, identity, critique of society: 1. Criticizing legal system and laws being broken or 3. Values in the society represented by the picaro or picara.
