Reading as Serious Play and Amusement: The “Billiard Table” Trope in Cervantes’s Prologue to Exemplary Novels Cover

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Reading as Serious Play and Amusement: The “Billiard Table” Trope in Cervantes’s Prologue to Exemplary Novels

East-West Cultural Passage

Volume 25 (2025): Issue 1 (July 2025)

By: Dragoş Ivana

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2025-0005 | Journal eISSN: 2067-5712 | Journal ISSN: 1583-6401

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Language: English

Page range: 95 - 108

Published on: Jul 30, 2025

Published by: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

Keywords:

authorial tricks, billiard table, , exemplarity, fictional games, , reading as recreation, , subversion of genres, transgression

Related subjects:

Cultural studies,

Genres and media in cultural studies,

General genre and media studies,

Linguistics and semiotics,

Applied linguistics,

Applied linguistics, other,

Literary studies,

Comparative literary studies,

Anglo-American literature,

Anglo-American literature, general

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