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Play and the Picaresque : Lazarillo de Tormes, Libro de Manuel and Match Ball.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: University of Toronto Romance SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (163 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442678521
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Play and the PicaresqueLOC classification:
  • PQ6147.P5 Y683 1999
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- 1 Play and Games: Recreative Disorder and Intellectual Order -- 2 Picaresque Realism and Magical Realism -- 3 Play in Lazarillo de Tormes -- 4 Manual for Manuel: How to Become a Pícaro -- 5 Picaresque Love Games in Match Ball -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Analyses three important Latin American novels in an attempt to redefine the nature of the picaresque, especially in regard to the roles of spontaneous play and carnivalesque laughter.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- 1 Play and Games: Recreative Disorder and Intellectual Order -- 2 Picaresque Realism and Magical Realism -- 3 Play in Lazarillo de Tormes -- 4 Manual for Manuel: How to Become a Pícaro -- 5 Picaresque Love Games in Match Ball -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Analyses three important Latin American novels in an attempt to redefine the nature of the picaresque, especially in regard to the roles of spontaneous play and carnivalesque laughter.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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