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Author: Melanie Henry Publisher: MHRA ISBN: 1781880026 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 182
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The Signifying Self: Cervantine Drama as Counter-Perspective Aesthetic offers a comprehensive analysis of all eight of Cervantes's Ocho comedias (published 1615), moving beyond conventional anti-Lope approaches to Cervantine dramatic practise in order to identify what, indeed, his theatre promotes. Considered on its own aesthetic terms, but also taking into account ontological and socio-cultural concerns, this study compels a re-assessment of Cervantes's drama and conflates any monolithic interpretations which do not allow for the textual interplay of contradictory and conflicting discourses which inform it. Cervantes's complex and polyvalent representation of freedom underpins such an approach; a concept which is considered to be a leitmotif of Cervantes's work but which has received scant attention with regards to his theatre. Investigation of this topic reveals not only Cervantes's rejection of established theatrical convention, but his preoccupation with the difficult relationship between the individual and the early modern Spanish world. Cervantes's comedias emerge as a counter-perspective to dominant contemporary Spanish ideologies and more orthodox artistic imaginings. Ultimately, The Signifying Self seeks to recuperate the Ocho comedias as a significant part of the Cervantine, and Golden-Age, canon and will be of interest and benefit to those scholars who work on Cervantes and indeed on early modern Spanish theatre in general.
Author: Melanie Henry Publisher: MHRA ISBN: 1781880026 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 182
Book Description
The Signifying Self: Cervantine Drama as Counter-Perspective Aesthetic offers a comprehensive analysis of all eight of Cervantes's Ocho comedias (published 1615), moving beyond conventional anti-Lope approaches to Cervantine dramatic practise in order to identify what, indeed, his theatre promotes. Considered on its own aesthetic terms, but also taking into account ontological and socio-cultural concerns, this study compels a re-assessment of Cervantes's drama and conflates any monolithic interpretations which do not allow for the textual interplay of contradictory and conflicting discourses which inform it. Cervantes's complex and polyvalent representation of freedom underpins such an approach; a concept which is considered to be a leitmotif of Cervantes's work but which has received scant attention with regards to his theatre. Investigation of this topic reveals not only Cervantes's rejection of established theatrical convention, but his preoccupation with the difficult relationship between the individual and the early modern Spanish world. Cervantes's comedias emerge as a counter-perspective to dominant contemporary Spanish ideologies and more orthodox artistic imaginings. Ultimately, The Signifying Self seeks to recuperate the Ocho comedias as a significant part of the Cervantine, and Golden-Age, canon and will be of interest and benefit to those scholars who work on Cervantes and indeed on early modern Spanish theatre in general.
Author: Melanie Henry Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This thesis offers an evaluation of Miguel de Cervantes's Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses nuevos nunca representados (Madrid, 1615) with the aim of redressing the critical neglect suffered by Cervantine drama. Existing scholarship on the plays traditionally prioritises what Cervantes's theatre does or, indeed, does not do vis-a-vis the comedia nueva, especially, the dramatic art of Lope de Vega. This type of assessment is inevitably reductive, closing down rather than opening lines of enquiry. This study, while recognising and interrogating Cervantes's inter-textual dialogue with dominant dramatic trends, aims to move beyond anti- comedia objectives to identify what Cervantes's theatre promotes. As such, it engages with Cervantes's complex rind polyvalent representation of freedom; a theme which is considered to be a leitmotif of Cervantes's work, but which has received scant attention with regards to his theatre. Analysis of how freedom functions - as theme and as a key concept of a component symbolic system - is located within the broader context of the conflicted socio- cultural and political environment which characterised Baroque Spain and is explored in relation to the desengafio experienced by the seventeenth-century Spanish subject. Analysis of the theatrical strategies employed by Cervantes to highlight issues' of individuality broaches the writer's preoccupation with the manipulative and unlimited potential of , dramatic art as well as his appreciation of the difficult relationship between the individual and the early modem Spanish world. Investigation of Cervantes's rejection of established theatrical conventions establishes the playwright's stage as alternative and nonconformist; a seditious project which underscores the dramatist's own relationship with his craft. Ultimately, by taking into account aesthetic and ontological concerns, Cervantes's Ocho comedias emerge as a counter-perspective to early modern Spanish ideologies and conventional artistic imaginings. This thesis seeks to recuperate the drama on these terms, as a significant part of the Cervantine, and Golden-Age, canon.
Author: Paul J. Thibault Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 0826492533 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 363
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This cutting-edge study of linguistic theory by one of the world's leading authors in the field of semiotics will be of interest to academics and postgraduates researching applied linguistics and advanced semiotics. In his foreword M. A. K. Halliday explains the importance of Paul J. Thibault's work to linguistics. Book jacket.
Author: Penelope Ingram Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 0791478378 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 192
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How do we live ethically? What role do sex and race play in living or being ethically? Can ethics lead to ontology? Can literature play a role in ethical being? Drawing extensively on the work of Luce Irigaray, Frantz Fanon, and Martin Heidegger, Penelope Ingram argues that ethical questions must be understood in light of ontological ones. It is only when sexual and racial difference are viewed at an ontological level that ethics is truly possible. Central to the connection between ontology and ethics is the role of language. Ingram revisits the relationship between representation and matter in order to advance a theory of material signification. She examines a number of twentieth-century film and literary texts, including Neil Jordan's The Crying Game, J. M. Coetzee's Foe, Toni Morrison's Paradise, and Don DeLillo's The Body Artist, to demonstrate that material signification, rather than representation, is crucial to our experience of living authentically and achieving an ethical relation with the Other. By attending closely to Heidegger's, Irigaray's, and Fanon's positions on language, this original work argues that the literary text is indispensable to a "revealing" of the relationship between ontology and ethics, and through it, the reader can experience a state of "authentic Being ethically."
Author: Velma E. Love Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271061456 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 159
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Divining the Self weaves elements of personal narrative, myth, history, and interpretive analysis into a vibrant tapestry that reflects the textured, embodied, and performative nature of scripture and scripturalizing practices. Velma Love examines the Odu—the Yoruba sacred scriptures—along with the accompanying mythology, philosophy, and ritual technologies engaged by African Americans. Drawing from the personal narratives of African American Ifa practitioners along with additional ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Oyotunji African Village, South Carolina, and New York City, Love’s work explores the ways in which an ancient worldview survives in modern times. Divining the Self also takes up the challenge of determining what it means for the scholar of religion to study scripture as both text and performance. This work provides an excellent case study of the sociocultural phenomenon of scripturalizing practices.
Author: Henry Louis Gates (Jr.) Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195136470 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 353
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A groundbaking work of enduring influence. The Signifying Monkey illuminates the relationship between the African and African American vernacular traditions and literature. Examining the ancient poetry and myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean culture, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., uncovers a unique system for interpretation and a powerful vernacular tradition that black slaves brought with them to the New World. This superb twenty-fifth-anniversary edition features a new preface and introduction by Gates that reflect on the book's genesis and its continuing relevance for today's culture, as well as a new afterword written by the noted critic W.J.T. Mitchell. --Book Jacket.
Author: Marie-Françoise Guédon Publisher: University of Ottawa Press ISBN: 177282240X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 275
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Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Congress of the Canadian Ethnology Society (1979) with contributed papers ranging in topic from semiology to the seventeenth century Iroquois wars to Japanese ghost stories.
Author: Melanie Henry
Author: Melanie Henry
Author: Melanie Henry
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