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Lector ludens : the representation of games and play in Cervantes
- Title
- Lector ludens : the representation of games and play in Cervantes / Michael Scham.
- Author
- Scham, Michael, 1969-
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
- ©2014
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 384 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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."--
- Series Statement
- Toronto Iberic ; [15]
- Uniform Title
- Toronto Iberic ; 15.
- Alternative Title
- Representation of games and play in Cervantes
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Series numbering from series title list in volume 37 of the series.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-364) and index.
- Language (note)
- Includes passages in Spanish followed by English translations.
- Contents
- Leisure and recreation in early modern Spain -- Solitary, collaborative, and complicit play in Don Quijote -- The Novelas ejemplares: ocio, exemplarity, and community.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-11136
- ISBN
- 9781442648647
- 1442648643
- LCCN
- 2014434044
- OCLC
- 875729445
- Author
- Scham, Michael, 1969- author.
- Title
- Lector ludens : the representation of games and play in Cervantes / Michael Scham.
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Toronto Iberic ; [15]Toronto Iberic ; 15.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-364) and index.
- Language
- Includes passages in Spanish followed by English translations.
- Local Note
- AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-11136