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Play & the Picaresque: University of Toronto Romance Series

Autor Gordana Yovanovich
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 dec 1999

This study takes a fresh look at the picaresque genre as seen in three important contemporary Latin American novels, Cort zar's Libro de Manuel, Sk rmeta's Match Ball, and the first picaresque novel, Lazarillo de Tormes. Gordana Yovanovich considers the genre in relation to the concept of play and shows how the traditional picaresque genre has been replaced by a distinctly modern version.

Play and the Picaresque contends that within Latin American culture humour and play serve as forms of empowerment and means of survival for those who are marginalized in society. Like the p caros of sixteenth-century Spanish novels, the proletarian characters in the Latin American fiction known as Magical Realism embody a playful and spontaneous approach to life and literature. The relationship of the magical to the real in Latin American fiction is, the book argues, comparable to the 'let's pretend' world and toys in play. The act of playing and living in these novels is a re-creative experience - a concept which has not been adequately explored in contemporary criticism.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780802047045
ISBN-10: 0802047041
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 159 x 237 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of Toronto Press (Scholarly Pub)
Seria University of Toronto Romance Series

Locul publicării:Canada

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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.