picaresque
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(adjective) of or relating to rogues or rascals / (adjective) of, relating to, suggesting, or being a type of fiction dealing with the episodic adventures of a usually roguish protagonist / (noun) one that is picaresque
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I tried to find some harmony between the adventurous, picaresque inner rhythm that prompted me to write and the frantic spectacle of the world, sometimes dramatic and sometimes grotesque.
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I tried to find some harmony between the adventurous, picaresque inner rhythm that prompted me to write and the frantic spectacle of the world, sometimes dramatic and sometimes grotesque.
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peroration
(en)
(noun) the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration / (noun) a highly rhetorical speech
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If we consider that this peroration in favor of truly universal fraternité was written nearly one hundred and fifty years before the French revolution
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If we consider that this peroration in favor of truly universal fraternité was written nearly one hundred and fifty years before the French revolution
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liminal
(en)
ambiguous; occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold
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Balzac, situated as he was at a nodal point in the history of literature, in a liminal experience, now visionary and now realistic
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Balzac, situated as he was at a nodal point in the history of literature, in a liminal experience, now visionary and now realistic
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dialogic
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pertaining to a dialogue; used by the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin in his work of literary theory, The Dialogic Imagination
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the manifold text, which replaces the oneness of a thinking "I" with a multiplicity of subjects, voices, and views of the world, on the model of what Mikhail Bakhtin has called "dialogic" or "polyphonic" or "carnivalesque,"
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the manifold text, which replaces the oneness of a thinking "I" with a multiplicity of subjects, voices, and views of the world, on the model of what Mikhail Bakhtin has called "dialogic" or "polyphonic" or "carnivalesque,"
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