'Lector Ludens'

'Lector Ludens'
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 397
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ISBN-10 : 9781442617407
ISBN-13 : 1442617403
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Download or read book 'Lector Ludens' written by Michael Scham and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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