Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Gustavo Pellon and Julio Rodriguez-Luis -- Acknowledgements / Gustavo Pellon and Julio Rodriguez-Luis -- Preface / Gustavo Pellon and Julio Rodriguez-Luis -- Introduction / Gustavo Pellon and Julio Rodriguez-Luis -- Picaro, Picaresque: The Picaresque in Literary Scholarship / Ulrich Wicks -- The Spanish Picaresque <Review and Conclusions> / Peter N. Dunn -- Genre and Countergenre: The Discovery of the Picaresque / Claudio Guillén -- Toward a Definition of the Picaresque / Claudio Guillén -- The Nature of Picaresque Narrative: A Modal Approach / Ulrich Wicks -- Literature and the Delinquent / Alexander A. Parker -- Francisco Rico's The Picaresque Novel and the Point of View / Gustavo Pellon and Julio Rodriguez-Luis -- The Dogs' Colloquy in the Picaresque and Other Notes / Gonzalo Sobejano -- Towards a Sociological Interpretation of the Picaresque Novel / Félix Brun -- Gracian or the Pure Picaresque / José F. Montesinos -- Renaissance Poverty and Lazarillo's Family: The Birth of the Picaresque Genre / Javier Herrero -- An Ideological Reading of the Epistolary Bond In Lazarillo de Tormes / Edmond Cros -- On the Intention and Value of Guzmán de Alfarache / Gonzalo Sobejano -- Problems of a Model for the Picaresque and the Case of Quevedo's Buscon / Peter N. Dunn -- The Picara: The Rogue Female / Peter N. Dunn -- The Picaresque Hero in European Fiction / Richard Bjornson -- The "Picaresque" in France Before Gil Blas / W. M. Frohock -- Estebanillo and Simplex: Two Baroque Views of the Role-Playing Rogue in War, Crime, and Art (with an Excursus on Krull's Forebears) / Gerald Gillespie -- Selective Bibliography / Gustavo Pellon and Julio Rodriguez-Luis -- A Note on the Contributors / Gustavo Pellon and Julio Rodriguez-Luis.

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