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

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

By: Dragoş Ivana  
Open Access
|Jul 2025

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

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