TY  - GEN
T1  - The spirit of carnival : magical realism and the grotesque
A1  - Danow, David K. (David Keevin), 1944-
LA  - English
PP  - Lexington, Kentucky
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
YR  - 2004
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn900344711
AB  - 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
OP  - 190
CN  - PN3352.C37 D36 2004
SN  - 9780813148946
SN  - 0813148944
SN  - 0813119057
SN  - 9780813119052
SN  - 0813191076
KW  - Carnival in literature.
KW  - Magic in literature.
KW  - Grotesque in literature.
KW  - Fiction : 20th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Carnavals dans la littérature.
KW  - Magie dans la littérature.
KW  - Grotesque dans la littérature.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Literary.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : General.
KW  - Carnival in literature
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Grotesque in literature
KW  - Magic in literature
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -