Picaresque

[Bonnie Surfus (ENG)]

I simply can't help noticing the nature of the picaro portrayed in your 
class.  ARe there any female picaros?  Seems not, judging from this list.

sigh.

On 
Tue, 12 Sep 1995 LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu wrote:

> 
> My first year in grad school included a seminar on the Picaresque in 20th
> century American lit.  We read V. (Profane as picaro in particular--this
> was before GR came out--"It dates me, I know" as Frau Gnahb sez).
> 
> Also on the list were THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH, THE NATURAL (much better
> than the film, BTW), TROPIC OF CANCER, BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY, RABBIT RUN,
> THE SOT-WEED FACTOR, THE GINGER MAN.  If not taken too literary as a genre,
> the "picaresque" can be quite protean.
> 
> Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)
>