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Dec 03, 2024
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ENGL 195 PZ -Rogue Tales: Picaresque Novel
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The picaresque genre attempts to represent a subject outside History — in early modern Europe, the newly dispossessed peasant, “dissolute, crooked, thieving and idle†— who will eventually become the modern wage laborer. The genre uses parodic humor to make for witty stories that to this day retain their power to make us laugh out loud. But alongside the genre’s humor, the picaresque also figures its protagonists’ refusal to submit. This course reads picaresque novels from early modernity to present, attending to the ideological and aesthetic strategies that underpin representations of the making of peasants into workers, and to traces of their refusal.
Prerequisite(s): See the current course schedule for registration restrictions.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal .
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