02753nam 2200637 450 991078738010332120200520144314.00-8131-4894-4(CKB)3710000000334151(EBL)1915320(SSID)ssj0001403004(PQKBManifestationID)12605370(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001403004(PQKBWorkID)11365351(PQKB)10641421(OCoLC)623144589(MdBmJHUP)muse43936(Au-PeEL)EBL1915320(CaPaEBR)ebr11011795(CaONFJC)MIL690787(OCoLC)900344711(MiAaPQ)EBC1915320(EXLCZ)99371000000033415120150228h20041995 uy 1engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe spirit of carnival magical realism and the grotesque /David K. DanowLexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,2004.©19951 online resource (190 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-59505-4 0-8131-1905-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; WThe 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 SecondCarnival in literatureMagic in literatureGrotesque in literatureFiction20th centuryHistory and criticismCarnival in literature.Magic in literature.Grotesque in literature.FictionHistory and criticism.809/.93353Danow David K(David Keevin),1944-1485469MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787380103321The spirit of carnival3704620UNINA