(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) It makes up part of our legendary picaresque national character, and our weak culture of solidarity."
(2) "My writing is more influenced from the European side - the picaresque novel, but also for me there's Melville, and not only Moby Dick, and poetry from Walt Whitman, who've influenced European literature.
(3) Yet it suffers from an inconsistency of tone, an overly picaresque procession of events, and a general wooziness – perhaps imparted by the scorching Puerto Rican locations – that around the 60-minute mark induces an insidious siesta-time sleepiness in the viewer (well, this one, at least).
(4) Now read on Rupert Thompson's The Insult, with its combination of American picaresque and dreamlike alienation, is greatly influenced by Auster.
(5) This is the story of a picaresque journey in France and in Corsica of Jules Cloquet (1790-1883), the French anatomist who described the well-known Cloquet's node and of Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), the famous author of "Madame Bovary" and of many others novels.
(6) This great American picaresque isn’t especially heavy on narrative force so it remains to be seen how playwright Jeffrey Hatcher and director David Esbjornson will propel the Big Easy action along.
(7) The others on the shortlist were Carol Birch for her much-admired Jamrach's Menagerie , a historical high seas adventure; two Canadian writers - Patrick deWitt for The Sisters Brothers , a picaresque western, and Esi Edugyan for Half Blood Blues , which mixes the raw beauty of jazz and the terror of Nazism; and two debut novels – Stephen Kelman for Pigeon English , which tells the story of a Ghanaian boy who turns detective on a south London housing estate; and AD Miller for Snowdrops , a Moscow-set tale of corruption and moral decline.
(8) But when all the daring connections and imaginative leaps coincide, such as in the Dragons' Trilogy, a picaresque exploration of Chinese culture, or in the seismic plotlines of Tectonic Plates, and Seven Streams, when it appeared again at the National in 1996 (after four years of public performances had refined it to perfection) the effect is spellbinding.
(9) Huck Finn itself is travel writing, in which the raft-trip down the Mississippi provides the picaresque structure for an episodic tale, an Edenic journey away from civilisation, as well as an occasionally frightening glimpse of the (all-too-human) wilderness.
(10) Sympathetic readers have actually regarded Holden as a saint, albeit of an unconventional kind, and have seen the plot as an exercise in the spiritual picaresque.
(11) This has been his special skill in the second half of a picaresque 23-job managerial career after an early ascent built on sturdy, workmanlike success.
(12) Some are gossipy and gonzo, like Bob Carr’s magnificently picaresque romp through the foreign affairs portfolio published earlier this year.
(13) Kim is at once spy story, coming-of-age tale, picaresque novel, adventure and a slice of Indian society at the end of the 19th century.
(14) Two more fat tomes followed: The Scar , a picaresque maritime adventure in which the city at the heart of the book is a floating community of ships lashed together by pirates; and Iron Council , a politically charged western in which a train hijacked by revolutionaries strikes out into the unknown.
(15) After Karadžić arrived in Serbia, the picaresque tale became even more bizarre.
(16) Critical verdict Auster's career has ranged from family memoir (The Invention of Solitude) to speculative dystopia (In The Country of Last Things), picaresque magical realism (Mr Vertigo), investigations of identity (The New York Trilogy established him as the only author one could compare to Samuel Beckett) and animal fable (Timbuktu).
(17) Now read on John Irving's picaresque epics (A Prayer for Owen Meany, The World According to Garp) are lighter than Grass's work, but share a similar tone (Irving studied under Grass in Vienna).
(18) The Secret History of Costaguana (2007), published this month by Bloomsbury in McLean's translation, is a humorous, picaresque novel of adventure and a knowing take on a family saga.
(19) The picaresques by which he drew self-deprecating parallels between himself and these figures were beautifully constructed.
(20) A sort of weird, sprawling picaresque epic, which starts out relatively small and gets larger.
Romance
Definition:
(n.) A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like.
(n.) An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance.
(n.) A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance.
(n.) The languages, or rather the several dialects, which were originally forms of popular or vulgar Latin, and have now developed into Italian. Spanish, French, etc. (called the Romanic languages).
(n.) A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance.
(v. i.) To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, in genres such as westerns, sci-fi and romance, well over 50% of sales could be in ebook form.
(2) 23 May More films to see in 2014 • 2014 preview: thrillers • 2014 preview: comedy • 2014 preview: Oscar hopefuls • 2014 preview: science fiction • 2014 preview: romance • 2014 preview: drama • This article was amended on Thursday 2 January 2014.
(3) This component of a more comprehensive study of Houdini focuses on the unusual reification of his family romance fantasies, their endurance well beyond the usual boundaries in time, their kinship with mythological themes, and their infusion with the ambivalence that is often addressed toward the true parents.
(4) While the multiplexes seem to be racing to make filmgoing expensive and unglamorous, here was romance.
(5) In high school, I was having this mad, passionate romance.
(6) The contemporary family romance myth of the secret benefactor as rescuer is described.
(7) The following year he played a philosophising, brutal hitman in the film True Romance, written by Quentin Tarantino , which paved the way for his lead role in The Sopranos, the gangster family saga that ran for six seasons from 1999.
(8) When notoriously snooty indie website Pitchfork reviewed True Romance, it gave it an 8.3, which is significant of the coolster demographic she reaches across the Atlantic.
(9) Gareth Neame, managing director of Carnival Films, which produces the show, said: "We promise all the usual highs and lows, romance, drama and comedy played out by some of the most iconic characters on television."
(10) But given its popularity, it is little wonder that negotiating "Facebook divorce" status updates has become another unhappy event for failed romances, over when to launch the site's broken-heart icon out into the glare of the world's news feed.
(11) Rumours of their romance were fuelled when, after dinner meetings in Hong Kong, they were seen holding hands.
(12) Witherspoon began working in films aged 14, making an instant impression after being cast in the lead role for the 1991 teen romance The Man in the Moon.
(13) Olympic medals, Nobel prizes, the colour of coffee romances, prestige credit cards and superior chocolate from Terry's to Wispa .
(14) You can pick up your Daredevil comic at Secret Headquarters ( thesecretheadquarters.com ), romance a date at Cafe Stella (3932 Sunset Boulevard; 001 323 666 0265), and grab some Humboldt Fog at Cheese Store of Silver Lake ( cheesestoresl.com ).
(15) The high-tech production sticks closely to the original story charting the rise and romance of amateur boxer Rocky Balboa, played by Drew Sarich.
(16) China has been courting Robert Ocholla with the awkward intensity of a high-school romance.
(17) She described a concentrated process of grooming by the entertainer, who kept up an intermittent and almost entirely romance-free sexual liaison with her until her late 20s.
(18) Amazon already has imprints for cult fiction (47North), thrillers (Thomas & Mercer), romance (Montlake Romance), children's books (Amazon Children's Publishing), foreign literature (AmazonCrossing), as well as its main imprint AmazonEncore, which launched in 2009.
(19) Well here's what they'll someday learn if they have a soul; there's no romance in a mouse click.
(20) The sidebar is dominated by the French romance Blue is the Warmest Colour, winner of the Palme d'Or award at the Cannes film festival, and the dark Italian satire The Great Beauty, which swept the European film awards last weekend.