RoadBook America: Contemporary Culture and the New Picaresque,Used

RoadBook America: Contemporary Culture and the New Picaresque,Used

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In this wideranging and sophisticated study, Rowland Sherrill explores the resurgence and transformation of an old literary formthe picaresque narrativeinto a new form that he shows to be both responsive and instructive to late twentiethcentury American life.RoadBook America discloses how the old picaresque tradition, embodied in such novels as Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, opens to include a number of new American texts, both fiction and nonfiction, that decisively share the characterizing form. Sherrill's discussion encompasses hundreds of American narratives published in the past four decades, including such examples of the genre as William Least HeatMoon's Blue Highways, John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, James Leo Herlihy's Midnight Cowboy, Bill Moyers's Listening to America, and E. L. Doctorow's Billy Bathgate.Sketching the socially marginal, ingenuous, traveling characters common to both old and new versions, Sherrill shows how the 'new American picaresque' transforms the satirical aims of the original into an effort to map and catalog the immensity and variety of America.Open, resilient, perennially hopeful, and endowed with a protean adaptability, the protagonist of the new American picaresque follows a therapeutic path for the alienated modern self. Mining the relevance of the reformulated picaresque for American life, RoadBook America shows how this old form, adaptable as the picaro himself, lays the groundwork for spiritual renewal and a restoration of cultural confidence in some old ways of being American.

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