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picaro |
scoundrel, vagabond, rogue |
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picaresque novel |
long prose narrative featuring a roguish character of lower social class living by his wits |
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picaresque novel is: |
episodic: loosely connected adventures satirical of social mores (customs) |
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narrative foil |
fictional character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight certain qualities of that character --complements |
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quixotic (n) |
unrealistic, impracticable |
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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" |
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Metafiction |
fiction in which the text self consciously alludes to its own literariness or artificiality ex/ Cervantes addresses the idling reader |
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satire |
literary act of diminishing a subject by making it look ridiculous |
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parody |
literary work modeled on and imitating another work |
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dramatic irony |
occurs when the reader has more knowledge about a situation than characters |
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What is Don Quixote a paradoy of? |
Chivalric romances |
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dialogism |
the use in a text of different tones or viewpoints whose interaction or contradiction is important to the text's interpretation |
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miyabi |
courtly refinement: the aesthetic pleasures that only an aristocrat could savor |
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matrilocal families |
married couples resided with or near wife's parents |
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monogatori genre what genre is Genji? |
long prose narrative with many subdivisions Genji is: TSUKURI |
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karma |
literally "action" all good and bad action, action that leads to future consequences |
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samsara |
the endless cycle of birth, mundane existence, dying and rebirth |
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3 marks of worldly existence |
impermanence- everything is in constant flux suffering/ unsatisfactoriness- non-self-- there is no unchanging or permanent self |
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mono no aware- |
the emotion that one feels when observing transient (fleeting) beauty ---sadness of being aware of an object's impermanence |
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onryo |
"grudge" or "vengeful spirit" one way that karmic consequences manifest themselves |
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otium |
"idleness," leisure time in which one can enjoy eating, resting, thinking and contemplating |