'Lector Ludens': The Representation of Games & Play in Cervantes Contributor(s): Scham, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1442648643 ISBN-13: 9781442648647 Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2014 Click for more in this series: Toronto Iberic |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese - History | Modern - 16th Century - History | Europe - Spain & Portugal |
Dewey: 863.3 |
LCCN: 2014434044 |
Series: Toronto Iberic |
Physical Information: 1.24" H x 6.59" W x 9.27" L (1.64 lbs) 400 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: Choice 02/01/2015 pg. 977 |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Scham, Michael: - Michael Scham is an associate professor of Spanish at the University of St Thomas in Minnesota. |
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