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Play and the Picaresque - Lazarillo de Tormes, Libro de Manuel and Match Ball (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,577
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Play and the Picaresque - Lazarillo de Tormes, Libro de Manuel and Match Ball (Hardcover): Gordana Yovanovich

Play and the Picaresque - Lazarillo de Tormes, Libro de Manuel and Match Ball (Hardcover)

Gordana Yovanovich

Series: University of Toronto Romance Series

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This study takes a fresh look at the picaresque genre as seen in three important contemporary Latin American novels, Cortazar's Libro de Manuel, Skarmeta'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Yovanovich considers the genre in relation to the concept of play and shows how the traditional picaresque genre has been replaced by a distinctly modern version.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 picaros 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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Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of origin: Canada
Series: University of Toronto Romance Series
Release date: December 1999
First published: 1999
Authors: Gordana Yovanovich
Dimensions: 235 x 159 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - With printed dust jacket
Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-4704-5
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
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LSN: 0-8020-4704-1
Barcode: 9780802047045

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