UID:
almafu_9959237137202883
Format:
1 online resource (190 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8131-4894-4
Content:
The world of literature responds to the ""spirit of carnival"" in ways that are both social and cultural, mythological and archetypal. Literature provides a mirror in which carnival is reflected and refracted through the multifarious perspectives of verbal art. In his original, wide-ranging book, David K. Danow catches the various reflections in that mirror, from the bright, life-affirming magical side of carnival, as revealed in the literature of Latin American writers, to its dark, grotesque, death-embracing aspect as illustrated in numerous novels depicting the dire experience of the Second
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; 1 LITERARY MANIFESTATIONS; 2 THE CARNIVALESQUE-GROTESQUE; 3 MAGICAL REALISM; 4 GROTESQUE REALISM; 5 ARCHETYPAL ASPECTS; NOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-59505-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8131-1905-7
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
