'Lector Ludens': The Representation of Games & Play in Cervantes (Toronto Iberic) - Hardcover

Scham, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1442648643 ISBN 13: 9781442648647

Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 2014

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Lector ludens : the representation of games editado por Univ. of Toronto Press

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'I endorse Scham's book as a fine contribution to Cervantes studies.' -- Eduardo Olid Guerrero Modern Philology vol 113:04:2016 'The range and depth of the study are admirable. The approach is scholarly and distinctive with some surprising and effective juxtapositions - and the treatment of the topic is, appropriately entertaining. Highly recommended.' -- E.H. Friedman Choice Magazine vol 52:06:2015 'Scham's book is a fascinating and scholarly analysis of games and play in Cervantes and an excellent accounting of his place in wider European context.' -- Harry Sieber Renaissance Quarterly vol 68:04:2014

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In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, debating the acceptability of games and recreation was serious business. With Lector Ludens, Michael Scham uses Cervantes's Don Quijote and Novelas ejemplares as the basis for a wide-ranging exploration of early modern Spanish views on recreations ranging from cards and dice to hunting, attending the theater, and reading fiction. Shifting fluidly between modern theories of play, little-known Spanish treatises on leisure and games, and the evidence in Cervantes's own works, Scham illuminates Cervantes's intense fascination with games, play, and leisure, as well as the tensions in early modern Spain between the stern moralizing of the Counter-Reformation and the playfulness of Renaissance humanism.

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• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1442648643
• ISBN 13: 9781442648647
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400