Love, desire and identity in the theatre of Federico García Lorca /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY :
Tamesis,
2007.
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| Series: | Colección Támesis. Monografías ;
241. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Jesus of love : the profane passion and holy spirit of the young poet's Cristo. The dialectic of flesh and spirit ; The flesh and its limits ; Más allá : the realm of the spirit ; The inversion of gender ; A young man's vision
- Mariana Pineda : iconic martyr to Love. Which Mariana? ; The play : its subject, structure and plot ; From 'estampa' to performance ; From the material to the ethereal ; The spiritual realm of dream and death ; Mariana the martyr : the sacrifice of the body ; 'La Mariana amante' : icon of Love
- The sacrifice of identity in Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín. Perlimplín : at the heart of Garcia Lorca's theatre ; The play's dualisms : plot and themes ; Don Perlimplín : the 'monigote' humanised ; 'La blanca Belisa' : from empty vessel to eternal Love ; Subversions of identity ; Ritual and the transforming final sacrifice ; Towards a production of new subjectivity
- El público : struggling with identity. The 'impossible' drama : homosexuality, structure and style ; The key dialectic of surface and depth ; Masculinity in question ; Bodily boundaries ; Queer acts : identity and existence as performance
- ¡Hijo de mi alma! : gender inversion and the metaphysical reproduction of the Self in Yerma. A woman frustrated? : theme, plot and structure ; A masculinised Yerma and an effeminate Juan ; The theory of gender inversion ; A desire for the Soul and the reproduction of Self
- Beyond the outer walls : transvestite masquerade and transcendent escape in La casa de Bernarda Alba. Subversive acts ; The photo documentary : drama in black and white ; From realism to drag performance ; On symbols and on the signs of Camp ; The performance of gender ; Beyond the walls of the house of Alba : Adela's challenge to Bernarda.
