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picaro

scoundrel, vagabond, rogue

picaresque novel

long prose narrative featuring a roguish character of lower social class living by his wits


picaresque novel is:

episodic: loosely connected adventures


satirical of social mores (customs)

narrative foil

fictional character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight certain qualities of that character


--complements

quixotic (n)

unrealistic, impracticable

epic vs. novel

epic: meaning is inherent, wholeness, epic hero acts...is always the same "at home"


novel: meaning must be figured out, fragmentation, hero of novel seeks.. constantly becoming "homeless"

Metafiction

fiction in which the text self consciously alludes to its own literariness or artificiality


ex/ Cervantes addresses the idling reader

satire

literary act of diminishing a subject by making it look ridiculous

parody

literary work modeled on and imitating another work

dramatic irony

occurs when the reader has more knowledge about a situation than characters

What is Don Quixote a paradoy of?

Chivalric romances

dialogism

the use in a text of different tones or viewpoints whose interaction or contradiction is important to the text's interpretation

miyabi

courtly refinement: the aesthetic pleasures that only an aristocrat could savor

matrilocal families

married couples resided with or near wife's parents

monogatori genre


what genre is Genji?

long prose narrative with many subdivisions


Genji is: TSUKURI

karma

literally "action"


all good and bad action, action that leads to future consequences

samsara

the endless cycle of birth, mundane existence, dying and rebirth

3 marks of worldly existence

impermanence- everything is in constant flux


suffering/ unsatisfactoriness-


non-self-- there is no unchanging or permanent self



mono no aware-

the emotion that one feels when observing transient (fleeting) beauty


---sadness of being aware of an object's impermanence

onryo

"grudge" or "vengeful spirit" one way that karmic consequences manifest themselves

otium

"idleness," leisure time in which one can enjoy eating, resting, thinking and contemplating