Play and the Picaresque : Lazarillo de Tormes, Libro de Manuel and Match Ball.
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- 9781442678521
- PQ6147.P5 Y683 1999
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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