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Lector ludens : the representation of games and play in Cervantes / Michael Scham.
LIBRA PQ6351 .S33 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scham, Michael, 1969- author.
- Series:
- Toronto Iberic ; 15.
- Toronto Iberic ; 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Novelas ejemplares.
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
- Games in literature.
- Play in literature.
- Leisure in literature.
- Pleasure in literature.
- Don Quixote (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de).
- Novelas ejemplares (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de).
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Representation of games and play in Cervantes
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- 1 Leisure and Recreation in Early Modern Spain 8
- Theoretical Contexts 8
- Prerational and Rational Play in the Epic, the Picaresque, and the Quixotic 17
- "No vivo para jugar, sino juego para poder vivir": The Space and Function of Eutrapelia 28
- Humanist Models of Play 43
- Therapeutic Exercise: Cristóbal Méndez, Rodrigo Caro, Fray Alonso Remon 45
- Human Divinity and Depravity: Vives, Erasmus, Montaigne 56
- Play Types in Golden Age Spain 70
- Physical Activity and Competition 100
- Regulating Play in the Indias 117
- 2 Solitary Collaborative, and Complicit Play in Don Quijote 122
- Cervantes and the Ambivalent Freedom of Play 129
- Players and Games in Don Quijote 139
- Play and Laughter in Don Quijote 150
- Laughing At, Laughing With 153
- Comic Doubt and Delusion in Don Quijote 161
- Ludic Scepticism in Don Quijote II 173
- 3 The Novelas ejemplares: Ocio, Exemplarity, and Community 212
- Agonistic and Restrictive Play in El licenciado Vidriera 213
- The Agonistic Intellect: Cruel Comedy and Vidriera's Humourless Vision 219
- The Picaresque and Play in El coloquio de los perros 230
- Play and the Liminal Underworld Experience 234
- Dialogue and the Digressive Quest for Meaning in El coloquio de los perros 246
- Play and the Exemplarity of Process 254
- Rinconete y Cortadillo and La ilustre fregona; Picaresque Freedom and Festive Play 259
- The Festive Mode of the Picaresque 260
- Monipodio's Criminal and Ludic Community in Rinconete y Cortadillo 265
- Rinconete Reflects: Distance, Morality, and the Aesthetic Experience 274
- Generic Interplay in La ilustre fregona 278
- Interrogation and Validation of the Fictional World in La ilustre fregona 288.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-364) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442648647
- 1442648643
- OCLC:
- 875729445
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