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.
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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'Lector Ludens': The Representation of Games & Play in Cervantes
400Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781442648647 |
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Publisher: | University of Toronto Press |
Publication date: | 09/17/2014 |
Series: | Toronto Iberic |
Pages: | 400 |
Product dimensions: | 6.43(w) x 9.28(h) x 1.35(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |