| Journey narratives are usually read under one of two headings: the quest/pilgrimage (linear, characteristically framed by religious and/or teleological assumptions, and featuring a pilgrim protagonist), and the picaresque (episodic, often irreverent and featuring a rogue protagonist). This course will juxtapose these two narrative strategies, and interrogate the uses of the journey in both picaresque and quest narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. |
