Author: Anita K. StollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Perception of Women in Spanish Theater of the Golden Age
Author: Anita K. StollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Gender, Identity, and Representation in Spain's Golden Age
Author: Anita K. StollPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838754252
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The essays in this collection provide new material to enable the continuing recuperation of the complex social ambiance that both created and was reflected in the literature of Spain's Golden Age.
The Woman Saint in Spanish Golden Age Drama
Author: Christopher D. GascónPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838756478
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Some writers present her as a representative of the symbolic order: invested with sacred powers and ultimate authority, she rebukes transgressors and negotiates their return to God's grace and lawful society."--Jacket.
Woman and Society in the Spanish Drama of the Golden Age
Author: Melveena McKendrickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521202949
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
An identification and analysis of Spanish Golden-Age drama's preoccupation with the woman who will not accept marriage as her natural role.
Women's Acts
Author: Teresa Scott SoufasPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813149290
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The plays are in Spanish. Los papeles están en el español.
Dramas of Distinction
Author: Teresa Scott SoufasPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813185297
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Renaissance Europe was the scene of flourishing and innovative dramatic art, and seventeenth-century Spain enjoyed its own Golden Age of the stage. According to traditional studies of this period, however, men seemed to be the only participants. Now in Dramas of Distinction, Teresa Scott Soufas offers the first book-length critical study of five important women playwrights: Angela de Azevedo, Ana Caro Mallen de Soto, Leonor de la Cueva y Silva, Feliciana Enriquez de Guzman, and Marfa de Zayas y Sotomayor. By locating the plays within their period, Soufas avoids universalizing women without regard to history. Her approach transcends the simple measurement of women authors against male models. Confronting the issue of female silence demanded by seventeenth-century Spanish patriarchy, Soufas compares the drive to limit and contain theater space to Renaissance society's efforts to limit and contain women. Yet these dramatists still found ways to question their own roles and male authority. Caro and Cueva investigate the difficult relationship between women and monarchy. Azevedo explores the ways Renaissance women become commodities in the marriage market. Cross-dressed women characters add carnivalesque implications to three plays in which gender identities are unstable. Finally, Enrfquez challenges the precepts of Lope de Vega's comedia nueva as she attempts to adhere to classical formal principles and reject the public playhouse. As a companion to the recently published anthology Women's Acts, also edited by Soufas, this study significantly contributes not only to Hispanic studies but also to women's studies, Renaissance studies, and comparative literature.
Early Modern Women's Writing and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Author: Stephanie MerrimPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826513380
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This book maps the field of seventeenth-century women's writing in Spanish, English, and French and situates the work of Sor Juana more clearly within that field. It holds up the multi-layered, proto-feminist writings of Sor Juana as a meaningful lens through which to focus the literary production of her female contemporaries. Merrim's book advances the integration of Hispanic women authors and women's issues into the panorama of early modern women's writing and opens up unexplored commonalities between Sor Juana and her sister writers. Early modern women writers whose works are explored include Marie de Gournay, Margaret Fell Fox, Catalina de Erauso, Maria de Zayas, Ana Caro, Mme de Lafayette, Anne Bradstreet, St. Teresa, and Margaret Lucas Cavendish. Merrim's study provides a full-bodied picture of the resources that the cultural and historical climates of the seventeenth century placed at the disposal of women writers, the manners in which women writers instrumentalized them, the building blocks and concerns of early modern women's writing, and the continuities between early modern and modern women's writing. Written in an engaging, clear manner, this innovative study will be of interest not only to Hispanists but also to scholars in early modern studies, women's studies, history, and comparative literature.
Writing for the Eyes in the Spanish Golden Age
Author: Frederick A. De ArmasPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 0838755712
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Although the very notion of writing for the eyes was not new to the Spanish Golden Age, its ubiquitous presence during this period calls for rethinking of the traditional separation between the visual and the verbal in studies of Iberian culture." "This collection of essays seeks to open up this complex interdisciplinary field of study by including essays on many aspects of visual writing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain."--Jacket.
Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre
Author: Erin CowlingPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487536682
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This collection of original new essays focuses on the many ways in which early modern Spanish plays engaged their audiences in a dialogue about abuse, injustice, and inequality. Far from the traditional monolithic view of theatrical works as tools for expanding ideology, these essays each recognize the power of theatre in reflecting on issues related to social justice. The first section of the book focuses on textual analysis, taking into account legal, feminist, and collective bargaining theory. The second section explores issues surrounding theatricality, performativity, and intellectual property laws through an analysis of contemporary adaptations. The final section reflects on social justice from the practitioners’ point of view, including actors and directors. Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre reveals how adaptations of classical theatre portray social justice and how throughout history the writing and staging of comedias has been at the service of a wide range of political agendas.
Spanish Women in the Golden Age
Author: Alain Saint-SaensPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313367647
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The history of women in early modern Spain is a largely untapped field. This book opens the field substantially by examining the position of women in religious, political, literary, and economic life. Drawing on both historical and literary approaches, the contributors challenge the portrait of Spanish women as passive and marginalized, showing that despite forces working to exclude them, women in Golden Age Spain influenced religious life and politics and made vital contributions to economic and cultural life. The contributors seek to incorporate the study of Spanish women into the current work on literary criticism and on the intersection of private and public spheres. The authors integrate women into subfields of Spanish history and literature, such as Inquisition studies, the Spanish monarchy, Spain's economic and political decline, and Golden Age drama. The essays demonstrate the necessity and value of incorporating women into the study of Golden Age Spain.